CaseFireball1999
Los Angeles, CA, USA
first saw it as a white light with a brilliant orange tail, tail disappeared white light continued across sky east and then seemed to b
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-02-23
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-7min
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-los-angeles-ca-1999-deb6f0
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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