CaseFireball2003
Troutdale, VA, USA
Fireball visible at low horizon in dusk sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-10-27
- Where
- Troutdale, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 36.702, -81.440 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-troutdale-va-2003-91602a
In context
- Troutdale, VA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 67 reports from Virginia.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.