CaseFireball1988
Shell Beach, CA, USA
At 3:00AM May 22nd from a viewing point in Shell Beach, California: An apparent burning object was rushing through the sky at a tremen
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-03-06
- Where
- Shell Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 35.155, -120.672 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-shell-beach-ca-1988-3bf83f
In context
- Shell Beach, CA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1988 brought 30 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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