CaseFireball1970
Stockton, CA, USA
ball of fire in summer sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-07-22
- Where
- Stockton, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.958, -121.291 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-stockton-ca-1970-c1df57
In context
- Stockton, CA shows up 70 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from California in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.