UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

North San Diego, CA, USA

Green fireball. Seemed to be too low for a celestial event. Definitely not fireworks.

Report quality: Low39/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-16
Where
North San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
apx. one second
Geo
—
Slug
fireball-over-north-san-diego-ca-1997-4eae89
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in North San Diego, CA.
  • This case is one of 152 California reports filed in 1997.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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