CaseFireball2001
Seattle, WA, USA
While driving noth on I-5 I observed the white fireball dropping out of the sky as I looked in the direction over northeast Seattle. I
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-25
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- one secaond
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-seattle-wa-2001-ddd237
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Seattle, WA in January 2001 alone — a local cluster.
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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