CaseFireball1998
Pasadena, CA, USA
I only submit this because of the increased number of sky sightings the past 10 days- what I saw was the largest shooting star [?] that
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-15
- Where
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 secs
- Geo
- 34.148, -118.145 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pasadena-ca-1998-78680d
In context
- Pasadena, CA shows up 56 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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