CaseFireball2001
Blythe, CA, USA
Meteor-like fireballs near Blythe California on the night the Mir Space Station plummeted back to earth
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-23
- Where
- Blythe, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.610, -114.596 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-blythe-ca-2001-62f7fe
In context
- Blythe, 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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