CaseFireball2003
Montebello, CA, USA
A very bright red light appears and disapears in three minutes after just huvering in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-24
- Where
- Montebello, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.009, -118.105 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-montebello-ca-2003-4bfb8e
Wave
Part of a wave
CA flap 2003-08
CA, USA
13 sightings in geohash 9qh1 (CA) during 2003 peak months 8–8; top shape light
Local cluster
Local cluster
Montebello, CA logged 9 reports in the single month of August 2003.
Flap
CA flap 2003-08
This case is part of the CA flap 2003-08 — 13 reports clustered in the same place and window of time.
Explore this area →In context
- One of 26 documented reports from Montebello, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 599 sightings in 2003.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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