CaseFireball1998
Poway, CA, USA
This is the second sighting in 3 weeks. first sighting 3 weeks ago was a large black object low in sky trailing a blue green red tail
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-23
- Where
- Poway, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 32.963, -117.036 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-poway-ca-1998-b371e6
Local cluster
Local cluster
September 1998 was a busy month for Poway, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Poway, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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