CaseFireball1999
Imperial Beach, CA, USA
A ROUND CIRCULAR SHAPE OBJECT LARGER THAN A AIRPLANE HOVERED OVER A RESIDENTIAL AREA FOR ABOUT 5MINUTES.BRIGHT RED LIGHT ILLUMINATED TH
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-31
- Where
- Imperial Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5MINUTES
- Geo
- 32.584, -117.113 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-imperial-beach-ca-1999-ff34f2
In context
- One of 17 documented reports from Imperial Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 407 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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