CaseFireball1998
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Greenish blue fireball streaking across horizon
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-11
- Where
- Elk Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 38.409, -121.372 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elk-grove-ca-1998-d5806f
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In context
- Elk Grove, CA shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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