CaseFireball1998
Auburn, WA, USA
It was a clear night, we saw a bright goldenrod colored ball in the sky then it split into two balls aprox the same size and shape trav
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-02-16
- Where
- Auburn, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 47.307, -122.228 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-auburn-wa-1998-447f61
In context
- Auburn, WA has 104 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 147 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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