CaseFireball1998

Orange (W/B SR-22, Garden Grove Fwy, @ Main St.), CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Orange (W/B SR-22, Garden Grove Fwy, @ Main St.), CA, USA
Start: 1998-12-06
Location: Orange (W/B SR-22, Garden Grove Fwy, @ Main St.), CA, USA

While driving on the freeway at 2358 hours on a Sunday night, I observed a green fireball with an orange tail shoot straight down.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (130 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-12-06
Where: Orange (W/B SR-22, Garden Grove Fwy, @ Main St.), CA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: < 1 second
Geo: 33.788, -117.853 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-orange-w-b-sr-22-garden-grove-fwy-main-st-ca-1998-753e56

In context

This is one of 1 reports logged in Orange (W/B SR-22, Garden Grove Fwy, @ Main St.), CA.
This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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