CaseFireball2003
Imperial Beach, CA, USA
Odd Silver/gray objects shooting above mountain range, (multiple daily sightings)
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-01-01
- Where
- Imperial Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 32.584, -117.113 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-imperial-beach-ca-2003-fe4118
In context
- Imperial Beach, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 599 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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