CaseFireball1979
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fireball passing through outer atmosphere about sunset.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-01-15
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds or less
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-los-angeles-ca-1979-dee5ef
In context
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 1979 brought 42 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.