CaseFireball1998
Lafayette/Moraga (Between), CA, USA
Unusually bright meteor/re-entry event
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-16
- Where
- Lafayette/Moraga (Between), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- flash
- Geo
- 37.886, -122.118 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lafayette-moraga-between-ca-1998-f10399
In context
- Lafayette/Moraga (Between), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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