CaseFireball2001
Orangevale, CA, USA
Bright fireball
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-18
- Where
- Orangevale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.679, -121.226 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orangevale-ca-2001-f2cca0
In context
- One of 14 documented reports from Orangevale, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 379 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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