CaseFlash1998
Poway, CA, USA
Flash of the brightest light ever, fire colored, tail twice as long, travelling west to east,horizontally. Was in the Union tribune on
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-10
- Where
- Poway, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 6 sec
- Geo
- 32.963, -117.036 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-poway-ca-1998-70332f
Local cluster
Local cluster
September 1998 was a busy month for Poway, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Poway, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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