CaseFireball2001
Arcadia, CA, USA
Orange fireball with tail, like shooting star but much larger.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-06
- Where
- Arcadia, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 00:15
- Geo
- 34.140, -118.035 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-arcadia-ca-2001-4eb565
In context
- Arcadia, CA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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