CaseFireball1998
Palm Desert (above), CA, USA
Fiance and I were on the way to the theatre (RENT musical) I motioned to her to look at the odd falling star when I realized that the d
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-29
- Where
- Palm Desert (above), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.723, -116.377 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-palm-desert-above-ca-1998-e29b6f
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Palm Desert (above), CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.