CaseFireball2001
Port Townsend, WA, USA
My friend and i saw a bright object that looked like a planet or a star, but was way too bright to be either, even venus.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-12
- Where
- Port Townsend, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 48.117, -122.761 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-port-townsend-wa-2001-2847eb
In context
- Port Townsend, WA has 23 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 218 reports from Washington.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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