CaseFireball1999
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
We experienced multi-colored lights from the sky which appeared to be illuminating from four objects shaped like softballs.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-20
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-cruz-ca-1999-8bbc17
Local cluster
Local cluster
April 1999 was a busy month for Santa Cruz, CA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 76 reports logged in Santa Cruz, 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.
Report
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