CaseFireball2002
Gilbert, AZ, USA
a shooting star but whiter object flew over our heads and started blinking with blue lights all over 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 (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-21
- Where
- Gilbert, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.353, -111.789 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gilbert-az-2002-dbe62d
In context
- Gilbert, AZ shows up 146 times across the archive.
- 123 reports came from Arizona in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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