CaseFireball1976
Virginia (western part; rural?), VA, USA
White light above cloud cover speed about 3000 mph;the fiery ball desending at a rate of 50 mph.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-11-25
- Where
- Virginia (western part; rural?), VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 36.918, -82.345 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-virginia-western-part-rural-va-1976-a64f80
In context
- Virginia (western part; rural?), VA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Virginia in 1976.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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