CaseFireball2000
Newport Coast, CA, USA
As with three other postings to this sighting. It was around 1:10AM in the south south east sky. But from my location the fireball ap
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-04-09
- Where
- Newport Coast, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-4 seconds
- Geo
- 33.596, -117.840 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-newport-coast-ca-2000-cf64b4
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Newport Coast, CA.
- This case is one of 439 California reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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