Cedar Park, TX, USA
Greenish Fireball: Cedar Park, TX. ((NUFORC Note: Probable meteor, we suspect. Video suggests a meteor to us. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-02-01
- Where
- Cedar Park, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 35 seconds
- Geo
- 30.505, -97.820 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cedar-park-tx-2012-0f3c6f
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Cedar Park, TX.
- This case is one of 266 Texas reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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