CaseFireball2001
Bellevue, WA, USA
A CIRCULAR BALL OF LIGHT WITH NO TAIL! MOVING VERY FAST FROM ZENITH TO NORTHERN HORIZON.. TOO FAST FOR PLANE/ NO TAIL
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-16
- Where
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 47.610, -122.201 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bellevue-wa-2001-31e164
In context
- One of 95 documented reports from Bellevue, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 218 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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