CaseFireball1979
San Francisco, CA, USA
Giant Orange Orb- Scoop marks - Bright lights in room.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 52s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-02-23
- Where
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45-60 seconds
- Geo
- 37.775, -122.419 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-francisco-ca-1979-2867ba
In context
- San Francisco, CA shows up 241 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from California in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.