CaseFireball2001

Battle Ground, WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Battle Ground, WA, USA
Start: 2001-04-09
Location: Battle Ground, WA, USA

AN ORANGE FIREBALL GOING FROM SLIGHTLY NORTH TO SOUTH BUT MOSTLY DOWN AND DISAPPEARED BEHIND THE TREES. IT LOOKED LARGE AND CLOSE ENOUG

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: 3s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2001-04-09
Where: Battle Ground, WA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 3 seconds
Geo: 45.781, -122.533 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-battle-ground-wa-2001-99c0fb

In context

Battle Ground, WA shows up 17 times across the archive.
218 reports came from Washington in 2001.
In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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