CaseFireball2002
Redwood Valley, CA, USA
High altitude brightly lit fireball with a brightly lit trail which ended in a huge explosion/disintegration, seen in the southern sky.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Redwood Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.265, -123.204 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-redwood-valley-ca-2002-65fe45
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Redwood Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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