CaseFireball1998
Danville, CA, USA
i was looking up with my dad and this bright white fireball came out of the east and headed west and blew up/dissapeared over Mt. Diabl
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-12
- Where
- Danville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-4 seconds
- Geo
- 37.822, -122.000 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-danville-ca-1998-d31f8a
In context
- Danville, CA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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