CaseFireball2002
Arlington, VA, USA
Bright green light seen through cloudcover which lasted only a second or two, with no sound or sonic boom.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-07
- Where
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.881, -77.104 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-arlington-va-2002-6a6b87
In context
- Arlington, VA shows up 44 times across the archive.
- 65 reports came from Virginia in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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