CaseFireball2001
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
A slow moving green fireball was seen travelling west to east over the horizon north of Phoenix, AZ.
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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-21
- Where
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-12 seconds
- Geo
- 33.509, -111.899 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-scottsdale-az-2001-5b30ff
In context
- Scottsdale, AZ has 172 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 115 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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