CaseFireball2002

Grass Valley, CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Grass Valley, CA, USA
Start: 2002-10-14
Location: Grass Valley, CA, USA

Test minuteman or intersepeter rocket ? ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
Brief witness text (39 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2002-10-14
Where: Grass Valley, CA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 10 sec
Geo: 39.219, -121.061 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-grass-valley-ca-2002-9e4050

In context

Grass Valley, CA shows up 34 times across the archive.
430 reports came from California in 2002.
In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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