CaseFireball1998
La Habra, CA, USA
First appeared as a huge meteor, but instead of burning out it exploded out; left a "dark hole" where it dissapeared followed by a stre
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-17
- Where
- La Habra, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.932, -117.946 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-la-habra-ca-1998-9a54c9
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from La Habra, 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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