CaseFireball2002
Osaka (Japan), Japan
Thick strand of light flying across the sunsetting sky at high speed
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 (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-16
- Where
- Osaka (Japan), Japan
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10mins
- Geo
- 34.694, 135.501 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-osaka-japan-2002-f32f1b
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Osaka (Japan), Japan.
- This case is one of 1 Japan reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.