CaseFireball2010

Seattle, WA, USA

there were 20-30 objects in the sky. they all looked the same; an orb that was colored red oarnge with an yellow aurora. they were firs

Report quality: High81/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 5 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-07-17
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 min
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-seattle-wa-2010-ff98d1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Cluster flap2010

    WA flap 2010-07

    WA, USA

    19 sightings in geohash c23n (WA) during 2010 peak months 7–7; top shape fireball

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 17 Seattle, WA reports filed in July 2010.

Flap

WA flap 2010-07

This report belongs to the WA flap 2010-07 — 19 sightings concentrated together.

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In context

  • Seattle, WA shows up 713 times across the archive.
  • 275 reports came from Washington in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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