CaseFireball2000
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Large blue/white flamed object falling to Earth in the Eastern sky above Phoenix.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-30
- Where
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.509, -111.899 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-scottsdale-az-2000-68ee46
In context
- Scottsdale, AZ has 172 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 215 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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