CaseFireball2002
Seattle, WA, USA
Streaking objects with smoke/steam tail just above the horizon, east of Seattle just before sunrise. The first appeared at 6:50Am, the
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-28
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-seattle-wa-2002-393df3
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Seattle, WA reports filed in September 2002.
In context
- Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
- 213 reports came from Washington in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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