CaseFireball1999
Vacaville, CA, USA
Eastbound on I-80 through Vacaville, object appeared to travel from west to east
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-10
- Where
- Vacaville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- approx 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.357, -121.988 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-vacaville-ca-1999-fc6d17
In context
- Vacaville, CA shows up 47 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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