CaseFireball1974
Niles, CA, USA
ball of light flying over Central Valley and over SF Bay area
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-06-01
- Where
- Niles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 42.019, -87.803 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-niles-ca-1974-290c72
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Niles, CA.
- This case is one of 33 California reports filed in 1974.
- Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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