CaseFireball2002
Westlake Village, CA, USA
Bright white fireball north of Los Angeles with four white streaks, surrounded by huge white vapour cloud part of which was turquoise
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Westlake Village, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 34.146, -118.806 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-westlake-village-ca-2002-281012
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Westlake Village, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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