CaseFireball2000
Newcastle, CA, USA
Bright green fireball comes close, but no explosion.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-08-18
- Where
- Newcastle, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.874, -121.133 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newcastle-ca-2000-37f9cf
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Newcastle, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 439 sightings in 2000.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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