CaseFireball2002
Hillsboro, OR, USA
A bright flash of white light shot across the sky in an instant with no sound
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-04
- Where
- Hillsboro, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1/2 second
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.990 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hillsboro-or-2002-4d07bb
In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Hillsboro, OR.
- This case is one of 97 Oregon reports filed in 2002.
- 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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