CaseFireball1964
El Cerrito (over Old Berkeley dump), CA, USA
A witness near the old Berkeley dump in El Cerrito, California reported a fireball in the sky in January 1964, lasting about two minutes, with no air crashes reported that night.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-01-10
- Where
- El Cerrito (over Old Berkeley dump), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.916, -122.312 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-el-cerrito-over-old-berkeley-dump-ca-1964-eb324d
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In context
- El Cerrito (over Old Berkeley dump), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from California in 1964.
- In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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