CaseFireball1956
Palo Alto, CA, USA
A witness in Palo Alto, California reported a fireball-like object appearing to land, then retreating when the witness attempted to approach, over five to ten minutes in June 1956.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (180 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-06-15
- Where
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 to 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.442, -122.143 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-palo-alto-ca-1956-da5eee
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In context
- One of 25 documented reports from Palo Alto, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 7 sightings in 1956.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1950s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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