CaseFireball2003
Chico, CA, USA
Driving home in the evening headed east, I looked north out the van window and saw what apeered to be a rocket entering the atmosphere.
Report quality: High81/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 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
- 6 sec.
- Geo
- 39.728, -121.837 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chico-ca-2003-8b001b
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Chico, CA reports filed in February 2003.
In context
- Chico, CA shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 599 reports came from California in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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