CaseFireball1999
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA, USA
A ball of orange light, 5X apparent size of a star. Drifted SW towards E. No flashing lights. Soundless except for once when it seemed
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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-08
- Where
- Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7-10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.022, -117.281 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cardiff-by-the-sea-ca-1999-1722d6
In context
- Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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