CaseFireball1999
San Ramon, CA, USA
It looked like a shooting star except it was bigger but it did move like a shooting star.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-11
- Where
- San Ramon, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 Sec.
- Geo
- 37.780, -121.978 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-ramon-ca-1999-ebc8db
In context
- San Ramon, CA shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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