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
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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