CaseFireball1974
San Jose, CA, USA
The Santa Clara Valley is bordered on the east by the Hamilton mountain range, and on the west by Santa Cruz mountain range. At the so
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-10-20
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-jose-ca-1974-a171b6
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 1974 brought 33 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 2.6% 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.