CaseFireball2002
San Antonio, TX, USA
At appox 12:24am myself and my neighbor witnessed an object that looked like a falling star travel at a high speed across the northwest
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-09
- Where
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 12 seconds
- Geo
- 29.424, -98.494 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-antonio-tx-2002-52fce4
In context
- San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
- 176 reports came from Texas in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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