CaseFireball2003
Monroe, WA, USA
Massive low altitude fireball speeding north over the horizon above Monroe, WA, at 16:00 on 8/24/03.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-24
- Where
- Monroe, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.855, -121.971 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-monroe-wa-2003-e87f04
In context
- Monroe, WA shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 245 reports came from Washington 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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