CaseFireball1998
Novato/Petaluma area, CA, USA
driving north on Hwy 101 saw a large object falling from the sky near the horizon. It started out as green, then turned white, then re
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-04
- Where
- Novato/Petaluma area, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.107, -122.570 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-novato-petaluma-area-ca-1998-42990b
In context
- Novato/Petaluma area, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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