CaseFireball2002
Washington Township, NJ, USA
Most likely a meteor or other type of space program related debris.... but it produced the brightest, most intense blue and green fireb
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-02-23
- Where
- Washington Township, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 secs
- Geo
- 40.988, -74.064 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-washington-township-nj-2002-a2f171
In context
- Washington Township, NJ shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from New Jersey 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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