CaseFireball1998
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
saw a larger, brighter, greener, rounder, and slower than normal "falling star" toward the SW while driving to my girlfriend's house.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-24
- Where
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 sec.
- Geo
- 33.660, -117.999 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-huntington-beach-ca-1998-e8c189
In context
- One of 97 documented reports from Huntington Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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