CaseFireball2000
Tacoma, WA, USA
on 09-06-00 @ approximately 19:15 hours Our Son spotted what he called a "falling star", However the object appeared to be make a contr
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-06
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tacoma-wa-2000-b4835d
In context
- Tacoma, WA shows up 197 times across the archive.
- 202 reports came from Washington in 2000.
- 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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