CaseFireball2003
Mariposa, CA, USA
it appeared to be a meteror entering the earth's atmosphere and was large enough that it may not have completely burned prior to impact
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-09-04
- Where
- Mariposa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- couple of seconds
- Geo
- 37.485, -119.966 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mariposa-ca-2003-4bc7d5
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Mariposa, CA.
- This case is one of 599 California reports filed in 2003.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.