CaseFireball2000
Capistrano Beach, CA, USA
Large fireball in southern sky, low to horizon, burning white to blue, traveling east to west at 2000 hrs. 09/26/00
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-26
- Where
- Capistrano Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.463, -117.672 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-capistrano-beach-ca-2000-251442
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Capistrano Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 439 sightings in 2000.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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