CaseFireball1998
Death Valley (Furnace Creek Ranch), CA, USA
A fireball travelled north to south, from horizon to horizon, due east of our location, at an elevation of about 45 degrees when due ea
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-28
- Where
- Death Valley (Furnace Creek Ranch), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 secs
- Geo
- 36.240, -116.811 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-death-valley-furnace-creek-ranch-ca-1998-a90c43
In context
- Death Valley (Furnace Creek Ranch), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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