CaseFireball2003
Phoenix, AZ, USA
SUDDENLY A BRIGHT ELECTRIC BLUE FIREBALL WITH A BIG FIREY RED SPARKLING TAIL APPEARED
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-04-21
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-2003-6d3e2e
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Phoenix, AZ reports filed in April 2003.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ shows up 741 times across the archive.
- 127 reports came from Arizona in 2003.
- 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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