CaseFireball2000
Salinas, CA, USA
One brightly lit ball that left a trail.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-01
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salinas-ca-2000-428425
In context
- Salinas, CA has 51 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 439 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.