CaseFireball2004

Issaquah, WA, USA

green ball of light falling East of Issaquah. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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)
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-08-18
Where
Issaquah, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
47.530, -122.033 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-issaquah-wa-2004-ee6c7b
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 52 reports logged in Issaquah, WA.
  • This case is one of 248 Washington reports filed in 2004.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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