CaseFireball1998
Mariposa, CA, USA
Observed a light behind a tree that was bright white, then it took off and as it did, it turned brillaint green
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 (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-26
- Where
- Mariposa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 37.485, -119.966 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mariposa-ca-1998-3d6899
In context
- Mariposa, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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