CaseFireball1998
Dana Point, CA, USA
Similar to a Shooting Star, but not! Brillient Bright Green in color with sparkling long tail.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-05
- Where
- Dana Point, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- At least 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.467, -117.698 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-dana-point-ca-1998-9d4043
In context
- One of 25 documented reports from Dana Point, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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