CaseFireball2000
Antioch, CA, USA
We observed an orange fireball moving slowly, under the cloud layer. First moving in an easterly direction, then turning north.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-04-17
- Where
- Antioch, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.005, -121.806 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-antioch-ca-2000-d7e82f
In context
- One of 70 documented reports from Antioch, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 439 sightings in 2000.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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