UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Cabo San Lucas (Mexico), Mexico

I witnessed a very large glow in the sky which cannot be attributable to any known aircraft and which descended into the ocean.

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: 135s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-25
Where
Cabo San Lucas (Mexico), Mexico
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 sec-90 sec.
Geo
22.891, -109.912 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cabo-san-lucas-mexico-1978-8935a9
Wave

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Cabo San Lucas (Mexico), Mexico in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Mexico logged 1 sightings in 1978.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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