CaseFireball2002
Mattawa, WA, USA
Gold fireball with tail, broke up, but continued downward close to Hanford Nuclear Site.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-28
- Where
- Mattawa, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 or 7 seconds
- Geo
- 46.738, -119.903 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mattawa-wa-2002-59a3e6
In context
- Mattawa, WA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 213 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.