CaseFireball1987
Malibu, CA, USA
April, 1987 - Bright Bluish Crimson Ball flying over the Malibu Canyons
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1987-04-01
- Where
- Malibu, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.026, -118.780 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-malibu-ca-1987-ea4598
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Malibu, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 25 sightings in 1987.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.8% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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