CaseFireball2001
Vancouver, WA, USA
Taking an evening walk facing west and saw a very bright, large orange fireball go overhead toward the west and then vanish. What was
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-01-19
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- minute
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-vancouver-wa-2001-df4024
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Vancouver, WA reports filed in January 2001.
In context
- Vancouver, WA shows up 223 times across the archive.
- 218 reports came from Washington 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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