CaseFireball2002
Belmont, CA, USA
Large fireball seen near San Mateo Airport
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-29
- Where
- Belmont, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.520, -122.276 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-belmont-ca-2002-2daa47
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Belmont, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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