CaseFireball1980
Alameda, CA, USA
I had been moving in to our new apartment in Alameda, California. I was relaxing on the beach overlooking the San Francisco Bay south o
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-04-10
- Where
- Alameda, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 37.771, -122.261 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-alameda-ca-1980-f565ab
In context
- This is one of 21 reports logged in Alameda, CA.
- This case is one of 36 California reports filed in 1980.
- Fireball craft made up 2.8% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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