CaseFireball2000
San Jose, CA, USA
Long, steady flight path leaving a trail the width of a finger held at arms
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-01
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 25 sec
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-jose-ca-2000-1b9bed
In context
- San Jose, CA shows up 277 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%.
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.