CaseFireball2000

Lake Tahoe (about 30/40 miles southwest of), CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Lake Tahoe (about 30/40 miles southwest of), CA, USA
Start: 2000-12-02
Location: Lake Tahoe (about 30/40 miles southwest of), CA, USA

Southwest of Lake Tahoe- a large, bright neon green fireball suddenly appeared high above the gap between two mountains and vanished.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
Detailed witness text (133 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2000-12-02
Where: Lake Tahoe (about 30/40 miles southwest of), CA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: under 10 seconds
Geo: 39.145, -120.096 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-lake-tahoe-about-30-40-miles-southwest-of-ca-2000-411c5b

In context

One of 1 documented reports from Lake Tahoe (about 30/40 miles southwest of), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
California logged 439 sightings in 2000.
Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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