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CaseFireball1997

Colfax (closer to Weimar), CA, USA

Early in the morning, I awoke, rapidly sitting up in bed as if awakened by a bad dream. Without any thought or autonomy on my part, I g

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-25
Where
Colfax (closer to Weimar), CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
39.101, -120.953 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-colfax-closer-to-weimar-ca-1997-353581
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Colfax (closer to Weimar), CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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