CaseFireball2000
Fortuna, CA, USA
round ball of light. looked like suns light reflecting off of ball in the sky. stayed motionless and hovered for 2-3min then moved nor
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-31
- Where
- Fortuna, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 40.598, -124.157 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fortuna-ca-2000-4fc618
In context
- One of 18 documented reports from Fortuna, 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
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.