CaseFireball2001
Orange, CA, USA
A large fireball type object appeared to be flying very rapidly across the sky coming from the south towards the north and then dissape
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-11
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orange-ca-2001-18f69e
In context
- Orange, CA shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- 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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