CaseFireball1998

Pasadena, CA, USA

I only submit this because of the increased number of sky sightings the past 10 days- what I saw was the largest shooting star [?] that

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-09-15
Where
Pasadena, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 secs
Geo
34.148, -118.145 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pasadena-ca-1998-78680d

In context

  • Pasadena, CA shows up 56 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%.

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