CaseFireball1998
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Hovering above a hill, then it went behind the hill and went straight up into the sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-02
- Where
- Santa Clarita, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.392, -118.543 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-clarita-ca-1998-181795
In context
- This is one of 34 reports logged in Santa Clarita, 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.