CaseFireball2003
Montebello, CA, USA
the red star in the sky
Report quality: High74/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-30
- Where
- Montebello, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 34.009, -118.105 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-montebello-ca-2003-cd66ab
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
9 reports came out of Montebello, CA in August 2003 alone — a local cluster.
Flap
CA flap 2003-08
Logged as part of the CA flap 2003-08, a 13-report space-time cluster.
Explore this area →In context
- Montebello, CA has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 599 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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