CaseFireball1999
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Red balls of light seen over Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz, CA. Many witnesses.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-28
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-cruz-ca-1999-84a816
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Santa Cruz, CA in April 1999 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Santa Cruz, CA has 76 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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