CaseFireball2002
Castle Rock, CO, USA
Green and orange fire ball shooting south across the sky at high velocity.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-07
- Where
- Castle Rock, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 sec
- Geo
- 39.372, -104.856 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-castle-rock-co-2002-676c8d
In context
- Castle Rock, CO shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Colorado in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.