UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

San Francisco, CA, USA

Green fireball over San Francisco

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-04
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-francisco-ca-2004-d4d88b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • San Francisco, CA has 241 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

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.