CaseFireball2000

San Diego, CA, USA

NEON RED LIGHT HIGH UP IN THE SKY MOVING VERY SLOWLY EXPLODED AFTER 1/2 HR BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2000-07-25
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
APPX 1/2 HR
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2000-a73538
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 San Diego, CA reports filed in July 2000.

In context

  • San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
  • 439 reports came from California in 2000.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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