CaseOther2002
Palo Alto, CA, USA
white light and gaseous tail resembling a comet tracking through upper atmosphere, which exploded like a firework
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-19
- Where
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 37.442, -122.143 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-palo-alto-ca-2002-07bf6f
In context
- One of 25 documented reports from Palo Alto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 430 sightings in 2002.
- Other sightings ran at 7.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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