CaseFireball1998
Aberdeen, WA, USA
Descending fiery object exploded and lit up whole sky momentarily like transformer explosion at high altitude
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- Aberdeen, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 05-10 seconds
- Geo
- 46.975, -123.816 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-aberdeen-wa-1998-4e124e
In context
- One of 15 documented reports from Aberdeen, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 147 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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