CaseFireball1998
Castaic, CA, USA
Traveling north on I-5 in Castaic, seen a greenish-white brilliantly lit fireball. Perfectly round in size come out of the sky, at a do
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-18
- Where
- Castaic, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- few seconds
- Geo
- 34.489, -118.623 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-castaic-ca-1998-ae9ce4
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Castaic, 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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