CaseFireball2002
Antioch, CA, USA
Two orange objects seen one dropping smaller orange lights underneath it.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-18
- Where
- Antioch, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.005, -121.806 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-antioch-ca-2002-a49d2c
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Antioch, CA in January 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Antioch, CA has 70 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- 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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