CaseFireball2002
Porterville, CA, USA
Fireball above Porterville, California. ((Vandenberg rocket launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- Porterville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.065, -119.017 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-porterville-ca-2002-575de4
In context
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Porterville, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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