The State - News from July 14, 1987

Authorities in San Diego received dozens of telephone calls reporting a fireball falling from the sky, but nobody seemed to know what it was. San Diego County’s Office of Civil Defense and Disaster Preparedness said it could find no probable explanation for the incident, and U.S. Forest Service dispatcher John Steadman said there had been no reports of fires. Sheriff’s Lt. Yolanda Collins said her office had been getting “reports from citizens in different areas of the county saying they saw things falling from the sky . . . kind of like Chicken Little. You know, ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling.”’