CaseFireball2003
San Diego, CA, USA
Orange Light in the Sky Pacific Beach
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-04-27
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2003-1e45a0
Local cluster
Local cluster
April 2003 was a busy month for San Diego, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
- This case is one of 599 California reports filed in 2003.
- 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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