CaseFireball1996
San Jose, CA, USA
A large boiling fireball 3/4 the size of the full moon. flew by so fast that i was the only oneto see it 2 others present I thought tha
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-08-01
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15-30 sec
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-jose-ca-1996-d88554
In context
- San Jose, CA has 277 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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