CaseFireball2002

Grants, NM, USA

In October 2002, I was driving east on Interestate 40 (close to mile marker 100), when I saw a greenish "comet-like" shape movng very

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2002-10-01
Where
Grants, NM, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 to 10 seconds
Geo
35.148, -107.853 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-grants-nm-2002-0a026c

In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Grants, NM.
  • This case is one of 46 New Mexico reports filed in 2002.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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