CaseTeardrop1998
Eureka (sighted from), CA, USA
Looking out window of house and saw a massive object descending in a straight path to earth near the horizon in the far distance.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-09
- Where
- Eureka (sighted from), CA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 40.802, -124.164 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-eureka-sighted-from-ca-1998-e74e56
In context
- Eureka (sighted from), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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