CaseFireball1998
Bishop/Benton, CA, USA
resident of Bishop driving past old road saw lights thought they were cops other veical drivers saw lights in sky manuevering.around 8:
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-26
- Where
- Bishop/Benton, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2hours
- Geo
- 37.364, -118.395 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bishop-benton-ca-1998-84cbfc
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Bishop/Benton, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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