CaseFireball1999
San Diego (Spring Valley) (20 mi. E of SD airport), CA, USA
Wife driving in car sited orange fireball size of thumb at arms length. moving from west to east movig 1/3 of sky in 45 sec.length of t
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-31
- Where
- San Diego (Spring Valley) (20 mi. E of SD airport), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-spring-valley-20-mi-e-of-sd-airport-ca-1999-907e6d
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in San Diego (Spring Valley) (20 mi. E of SD airport), CA.
- This case is one of 407 California reports filed in 1999.
- 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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