CaseFireball1999
Gilroy (5 miles So of), CA, USA
Very bright white/light-green light going East-West seems to expand suddenly (explode ?) and vanish in a fraction of a second. Trajecto
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-03-03
- Where
- Gilroy (5 miles So of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- < 1 sec
- Geo
- 37.006, -121.568 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gilroy-5-miles-so-of-ca-1999-e70fae
In context
- Gilroy (5 miles So of), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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