CaseFireball1959
Tehachapi, CA, USA
White fireball hitting ground.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-12-30
- Where
- Tehachapi, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 35.132, -118.449 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tehachapi-ca-1959-d1ab66
In context
- Tehachapi, CA has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1959 brought 11 reports from California.
- The 1950s skewed 3.9% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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