CaseFireball1998
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Orange glowing fireball with structures radiating from the light source
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-16
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bakersfield-ca-1998-99a561
In context
- One of 140 documented reports from Bakersfield, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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