CaseFireball1996
Long Beach, CA, USA
A Large Brilliant green fireball was seen "fall to earth" in the direction of the Long beach airport.There was no fire or evidence of a
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-15
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-long-beach-ca-1996-727cff
In context
- This is one of 142 reports logged in Long Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 136 California reports filed in 1996.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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