UFOMYST
CaseFireball1990

North Fork, CA, USA

Greenish, glowing light in mid-day disappears to hillside without a sound

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-07-15
Where
North Fork, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 minutes or less
Geo
37.230, -119.510 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-north-fork-ca-1990-f786cb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • North Fork, CA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 48 reports came from California in 1990.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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