CaseFireball1999
Hanford, CA, USA
Facing south I observed a round, green fireball traveling straight down almost vertical, with a vapor trail as it burned out.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-05
- Where
- Hanford, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 36.327, -119.646 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-hanford-ca-1999-c4bfb4
In context
- Hanford, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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