CaseFireball1998
Los Angeles (Downtown), CA, USA
a spectacular fireball moving horizontally from south to northeast.. approx. the same height as the regular helicopters and small aircr
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-08
- Where
- Los Angeles (Downtown), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-los-angeles-downtown-ca-1998-631f7d
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Los Angeles (Downtown), CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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