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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