CaseFireball2001
Seattle, WA, USA
In the wee hours of July 3rd I saw a giant red fireball fall slowly over the north of Puget Sound.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-07-03
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-seattle-wa-2001-b467db
In context
- Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 218 reports from Washington.
- 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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