CaseFireball2001
Castle Rock, CO, USA
We saw a very bright white light, looked like the moon setting very quickly.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-11
- Where
- Castle Rock, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.372, -104.856 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-castle-rock-co-2001-3ac6be
In context
- Castle Rock, CO has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 100 reports from Colorado.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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