CaseFireball1998
Redding, CA, USA
MY BROTHER AND I WERE DRIVING SOUTH BOUND ON I5 ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES NORTH OF ANDERSON, CALIFORNIA. A HUGE WHITE/BLUEISH FIREBALL WAS SEE
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-14
- Where
- Redding, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.587, -122.392 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-redding-ca-1998-db4509
In context
- This is one of 103 reports logged in Redding, 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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