CaseFireball1999
Hwy 199, CA, USA
A brilliant bluish/white ball of fire that looked at first like a comet streaking across the sky but than turned and came directly towa
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-22
- Where
- Hwy 199, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- :30
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-hwy-199-ca-1999-6dd5b5
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Hwy 199, CA.
- This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.