CaseFireball2002
Boca Raton, FL, USA
Bright orange-yellow flare-like light traveled across the sky towards the south, breaking into two still-flaming pieces before disappe
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-10
- Where
- Boca Raton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- <1 minute
- Geo
- 26.359, -80.083 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-boca-raton-fl-2002-0735db
In context
- Boca Raton, FL has 69 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 154 reports from Florida.
- 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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