CaseFireball2002
Long Beach, CA, USA
When doing trash run I looked to sky and saw a scary green fireball which seemed to want to communicate, as if it were alive.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-28
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-long-beach-ca-2002-7171c2
In context
- Long Beach, CA has 142 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 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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