CaseFireball2003
Chico, CA, USA
I saw a bright blue/green fireball in the East/Northeast sky travel from left upper corner to the lower right horizon.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-02-16
- Where
- Chico, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chico-ca-2003-36ebcc
Local cluster
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Chico, CA in February 2003 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Chico, CA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 599 reports from California.
- 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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