CaseFireball1998

Cedar Crest, NM, USA

Walking our dogs at 10:00 pm 9-22-98 looking south a large ball of light with a tail 3 times larger than the ball that sparked and flic

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-09-22
Where
Cedar Crest, NM, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 sec.
Geo
35.108, -106.373 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cedar-crest-nm-1998-bbefe1

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Cedar Crest, NM.
  • This case is one of 26 New Mexico reports filed in 1998.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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