CaseFireball2003
Gilroy, CA, USA
In the northeast sky while star gazing, myself and two buddies overlooked a bright orange light which we first assumed was jupiter. F
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-26
- Where
- Gilroy, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 37.006, -121.568 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gilroy-ca-2003-883e97
In context
- Gilroy, CA shows up 24 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
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