CaseFireball2017
San Diego, CA, USA
Fireball moving south to north in western sky lasting about 15 minutes, faded from sight in the distance.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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- Duration parsed: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-15
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2017-5791fb
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In context
- San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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