UFOMYST
CaseFireball1989

Ridgecrest, CA, USA

Fireball object SouthWest of Ridgecrest, CA, drops below hills and disappears.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-05-15
Where
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
35.622, -117.671 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ridgecrest-ca-1989-1625de
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

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In context

  • Ridgecrest, CA has 37 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 32 reports from California.
  • The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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