UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

San Jose, CA, USA

Very bright cobalt blue fireball over highway 101 near Minetta San Jose Airport

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-01-17
Where
San Jose, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
37.339, -121.895 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-jose-ca-2005-6de7ec
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • San Jose, CA shows up 277 times across the archive.
  • 539 reports came from California in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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