CaseFireball1996
Upland, CA, USA
Early morning driving to work a beautiful bright green colored sphere moving very fast crossed my path about one quarter mile in front
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-12-12
- Where
- Upland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 34.098, -117.648 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-upland-ca-1996-321ec0
In context
- Upland, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 136 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.