CaseFireball2001
Wasco, CA, USA
I was on my way to work and saw a fire ball that seemed to be just above the tree line before it hit the ground.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-05
- Where
- Wasco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3sec
- Geo
- 35.594, -119.341 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wasco-ca-2001-702a8e
In context
- Wasco, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California 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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