CaseOther2002
San Jose, CA, USA
I NCOULD HEAR A FAINT HUM OF WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A JET THEN A HELICOPTER FLEW BYEI WENT OUT AND COULD SEE THE VAPOR TRAIL OF THE ROCKET.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-14
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-san-jose-ca-2002-818878
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of San Jose, CA in October 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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