CaseFireball1972
Fairfield/Benicia (near), CA, USA
Witnesses near Fairfield and Benicia, California reported a large fireball moving slowly and low in the sky, illuminating the area for miles, during a three-minute sighting in June 1972.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-30
- Where
- Fairfield/Benicia (near), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.249, -122.040 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fairfield-benicia-near-ca-1972-11b69e
In context
- Fairfield/Benicia (near), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from California in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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