CaseFireball1988
Atlantic Ocean (middle), Middle of the Atlantic Ocean
The light clearly lit up the bow of the vessel, where no light should have been, in the middle of the Atlantic.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-21
- Where
- Atlantic Ocean (middle), Middle of the Atlantic Ocean
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-atlantic-ocean-middle-1988-bbfb62
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Atlantic Ocean (middle), Middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
- This case is one of 1 Middle of the Atlantic Ocean reports filed in 1988.
- Fireball craft made up 2.8% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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