CaseFireball2002
Long Beach, CA, USA
Fast moving orange sky jumping, spark trail, disappearing, reappearing flying object on 5/12/02, 22:00-22:14pm
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-12
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20-25 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-long-beach-ca-2002-0f5f31
In context
- This is one of 142 reports logged in Long Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- 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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