CaseFireball1999
Escondido, CA, USA
A large circular orange light which moved to the north, then south, north again the up until it dissapeared.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-18
- Where
- Escondido, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.119, -117.086 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-escondido-ca-1999-248f4c
In context
- Escondido, CA has 79 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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