CaseFireball1998
Belton (5mi south on SR Y), MO, USA
Green fire ball with orange sparkles trailing behind
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-08
- Where
- Belton (5mi south on SR Y), MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 sec.
- Geo
- 38.812, -94.532 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-belton-5mi-south-on-sr-y-mo-1998-66f474
In context
- Belton (5mi south on SR Y), MO has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 38 reports from Missouri.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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