CaseFireball1998
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Object seen streaking across sky, leaveing huge contrail, it was across the horizon over head, and heading east to west, along hwy40(ro
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-10
- Where
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 35.084, -106.651 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-albuquerque-nm-1998-4ffb0e
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Albuquerque, NM in August 1998 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Albuquerque, NM has 377 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 26 reports from New Mexico.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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