CaseFireball2000
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
flurscent green fireball the approx size of a half moon coming from sky over ocean over highway to mountains on otherside of us.very br
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-04-09
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 sec
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-barbara-ca-2000-0cba50
In context
- Santa Barbara, CA shows up 117 times across the archive.
- 439 reports came from California in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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