CaseFireball1986
Onyx, CA, USA
friend and i were walking home on a dark night. there was a storm building, the cloud were very low. they were touching the mountain to
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
- 1986-10-15
- Where
- Onyx, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.690, -118.221 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-onyx-ca-1986-0c5379
In context
- Onyx, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 27 reports came from California in 1986.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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