CaseFireball1998
Del Mar, CA, USA
Fireball streaked across the sky and fizzled out 5 miles inland
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-01
- Where
- Del Mar, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 32.959, -117.265 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-del-mar-ca-1998-a8c289
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Del Mar, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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