CaseFireball2001
Phelan, CA, USA
Fire ball moved slowly stopped and headed toward the ocean Flames as a tale Watch for 30 min
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-05
- Where
- Phelan, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 34.426, -117.572 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phelan-ca-2001-48f7b2
In context
- Phelan, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 379 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.