CaseFireball2003
Oceanside, CA, USA
Fireball
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (8 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-05
- Where
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 min.
- Geo
- 33.196, -117.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oceanside-ca-2003-f3b0b4
In context
- Oceanside, CA shows up 53 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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