CaseFireball1998
Oceanside, CA, USA
Bright, fire-like object streaked from west to east in a level, horizonal attitude at a speed that took approximately 10 seconds to cov
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-10
- Where
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Approx. 10-15 sec.
- Geo
- 33.196, -117.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oceanside-ca-1998-6e7588
In context
- One of 53 documented reports from Oceanside, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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