CaseFireball1998
Bayview, WA, USA
movement from east to west, travelling appx. 45 degree angle towards the ground
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-23
- Where
- Bayview, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-5 sec
- Geo
- 48.484, -122.478 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bayview-wa-1998-20c08d
In context
- Bayview, WA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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