CaseFireball2002
Temecula, CA, USA
Fireball seen in Southern California
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-05
- Where
- Temecula, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 Min.
- Geo
- 33.494, -117.148 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-temecula-ca-2002-517ad1
Local cluster
Local cluster
October 2002 was a busy month for Temecula, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 80 reports logged in Temecula, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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