CaseFireball2003
San Francisco, CA, USA
a bright fireball like object that hovered for severall minutes then dispersed and shot high into the clouds
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-02-24
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-francisco-ca-2003-106a3f
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 San Francisco, CA reports filed in February 2003.
In context
- San Francisco, CA shows up 241 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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