CaseFireball2001
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Glowing object in the sky, which sparked with sparks, that moved very unlike an airplane or helicopter.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-03-07
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5minutes
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-monica-ca-2001-8ee615
In context
- Santa Monica, CA shows up 61 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- 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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