CaseFireball2002

Kettle Falls, WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Kettle Falls, WA, USA
Start: 2002-11-11
Location: Kettle Falls, WA, USA

N.E. WA. 3 witnessed rocket shaped UFO emmitting orange sparks.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (63 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2002-11-11
Where: Kettle Falls, WA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 5 seconds
Geo: 48.611, -118.056 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-kettle-falls-wa-2002-f2f6d7

In context

Kettle Falls, WA shows up 4 times across the archive.
213 reports came from Washington in 2002.
In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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