CaseFireball1999
Auburn, CA, USA
Traveling across the entire horizon in less than 2 minutes, 7-8 comet-like objects blazed across the sky. One of the objects trailed of
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-01
- Where
- Auburn, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.897, -121.077 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-auburn-ca-1999-23f126
In context
- Auburn, CA shows up 28 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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