CaseFireball1998
Atlanta, GA, USA
Atlanta "meteor" fireball, December 5th 1998, approx. 03:00am Image computer recreation of event mailed to 'images site'.
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-05
- Where
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-1.5sec.
- Geo
- 33.749, -84.388 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-atlanta-ga-1998-4e9518
Local cluster
Local cluster
December 1998 was a busy month for Atlanta, GA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 155 reports logged in Atlanta, GA.
- This case is one of 32 Georgia reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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