UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Yucaipa, CA, USA

A single orange glowing object moving East at a steady speed. Began to drop flaming objects like the shards from a welders torch. Aft

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-21
Where
Yucaipa, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
34.034, -117.043 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-yucaipa-ca-1997-56c035
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Yucaipa, CA has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 152 reports from California.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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