CaseFireball2002
Santa Ynez, CA, USA
classic Shuttle reentry sighting. sounding like a lift-off.Two visuals and three who heard object reentry.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-04
- Where
- Santa Ynez, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 34.614, -120.080 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-ynez-ca-2002-dcd100
In context
- Santa Ynez, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.