CaseCone2002
Ventura, CA, USA
An unidentified object floats above the western sky and then vanishes only leaving a smokey trail behind.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-17
- Where
- Ventura, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 34.278, -119.293 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-ventura-ca-2002-3f4b03
Local cluster
Local cluster
8 reports came out of Ventura, CA in May 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Ventura, CA has 91 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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