CaseFireball2000
Bakersfield, CA, USA
I observed what I believed to be a meteor, however I watched it cross the entire sky for about 90 seconds.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-06-27
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bakersfield-ca-2000-8e983b
In context
- Bakersfield, CA has 140 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 439 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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