CaseFireball2002
Las Vegas (near), NV, USA
A comet shaped object, with a bright tail vanishing to a spot
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-29
- Where
- Las Vegas (near), NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min approx.
- Geo
- 36.175, -115.137 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-las-vegas-near-nv-2002-21f9d8
In context
- Las Vegas (near), NV shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from Nevada in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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