CaseFireball1998
Salinas, CA, USA
Fireball flickers to a huge tumbling black potato, eyes and all, looking rock
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-06
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salinas-ca-1998-91411c
In context
- This is one of 51 reports logged in Salinas, 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.