CaseFireball2000
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Brilliant Green Fireball moves slowly from high in the SE to low in the SW
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-26
- Where
- Palm Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-palm-springs-ca-2000-c1481c
In context
- Palm Springs, CA shows up 83 times across the archive.
- 439 reports came from California in 2000.
- 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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