UFOMYST
CaseFireball1978

Simi Valley, CA, USA

There were multiple objects that hovered and accelerated at lightning fast speed.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-15
Where
Simi Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 min
Geo
34.269, -118.781 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-simi-valley-ca-1978-3bf099
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Simi Valley, CA shows up 65 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from California in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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