CaseFireball2003
Portland, OR, USA
This was the amber fireball...very smooth trajectory and very fast...just takin` its time it seemed....
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-07-26
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-1/2 min
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-2003-41a3fd
Local cluster
Local cluster
July 2003 was a busy month for Portland, OR: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 557 reports logged in Portland, OR.
- This case is one of 94 Oregon reports filed in 2003.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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