CaseFireball2002
San Francisco, CA, USA
while light, very high in the outh eastern sky on horizontal or slightly upward trajectory. white flare behind it - conical shaped. mov
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-francisco-ca-2002-c07aad
In context
- San Francisco, CA has 241 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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