CaseFireball1998
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
A comet-like thing, about the size of a dinner plate. It had a tail that was greenish with sparks in it. No sound.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-21
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-cruz-ca-1998-85fe3d
In context
- Santa Cruz, CA has 76 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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