CaseFireball1998
Charleston, SC, USA
streaking blue/green fireball lit up sky. fireball going east to west and appeared to disintergrate after 3-4 seconds
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-charleston-sc-1998-020ccc
Local cluster
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Charleston, SC in October 1998 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Charleston, SC has 72 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 26 reports from South Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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