CaseFireball2003
Eureka, CA, USA
Very large dancing fireball, 35-40 degrees above NE horizon, with additional small fiery lights emerging and descending toward horizon
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-17
- Where
- Eureka, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.802, -124.164 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-eureka-ca-2003-877962
In context
- Eureka, CA shows up 42 times across the archive.
- 599 reports came from California in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.