CaseFireball1998
Oakland - Near the Bay Bridge, CA, USA
It looked like a large remote control firework that was going East to West, occasionally disappearing and reappearing.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-09
- Where
- Oakland - Near the Bay Bridge, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes+
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-oakland-near-the-bay-bridge-ca-1998-c404a6
In context
- Oakland - Near the Bay Bridge, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 232 reports came from California in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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