CaseFireball2003
Chico, CA, USA
A firey ball of light descending from left to right and high to low in front of us changed colors from white, to yellow to green.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 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
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chico-ca-2003-392bfa
Local cluster
Local cluster
February 2003 was a busy month for Chico, CA: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Chico, CA.
- This case is one of 599 California reports filed in 2003.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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