CaseFireball2002
Hollister, CA, USA
looked like a single landing light with a vapor trail that grew and grew till it was 8 to 10 times the size of the object, then with a
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Hollister, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 36.852, -121.402 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hollister-ca-2002-747b07
In context
- One of 36 documented reports from Hollister, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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