CaseFireball2000
Crescent City, CA, USA
Saw a bright light (looked like police chopper with spotlight). watched a few sec, noticed a blue tail of smoke??? Saw light beam g
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 (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-01-18
- Where
- Crescent City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 41.756, -124.202 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-crescent-city-ca-2000-bcbd44
In context
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Crescent City, CA.
- This case is one of 439 California reports filed in 2000.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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