CaseFireball1998
Charleston, SC, USA
The sky lit light heat lightening then the a ball of light was shooting across the sky. My thought was it looked like a Roman candle b
Report quality: High73/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 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
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-charleston-sc-1998-27069d
Local cluster
Local cluster
Charleston, SC logged 4 reports in the single month of October 1998.
In context
- One of 72 documented reports from Charleston, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 26 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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