CaseFireball2002
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Fireball across the top of the wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City,Utah USA
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-17
- Where
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 40.761, -111.891 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2002-64ea12
In context
- Salt Lake City, UT has 235 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 44 reports from Utah.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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