CaseFireball1999
Richmond (Canada), BC, Canada
I was driving home from the Vancouver Airport and something had obviously just cut a swath through a cloud at 30 degree angle to the ea
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-14
- Where
- Richmond (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 49.170, -123.137 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-richmond-canada-bc-1999-57b917
In context
- Richmond (Canada), Canada shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 136 reports came from Canada in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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