CaseFireball2000
Gilbert, AZ, USA
A very slow bright & shiny red fireball. It looked like the fireball was from space because it was higher than the airplanes.
Report quality: High89/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 12 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-12
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 33.353, -111.789 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gilbert-az-2000-50df46
Wave
Part of a wave
AZ flap 2000-07
AZ, USA
19 sightings in geohash 9tbt (AZ) during 2000 peak months 7–7; top shape light
Local cluster
Local cluster
July 2000 was a busy month for Gilbert, AZ: 19 separate reports.
Flap
AZ flap 2000-07
One of 19 sightings that make up the AZ flap 2000-07.
Explore this area →In context
- This is one of 146 reports logged in Gilbert, AZ.
- This case is one of 215 Arizona reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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