CaseFireball2000
San Diego, CA, USA
Bight red light hovering for about 20 minutes then disappearing, reapearing as a white flash, spiltting into 4 faint objects and gone.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-08-26
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2000-e1807b
Local cluster
Local cluster
August 2000 was a busy month for San Diego, CA: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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