CaseFireball1998
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
A slowly descending Blue-Green Fireball. First Appeared at apx. 52 deg. El. and went down to apx. 0 deg. Disappeared behind Condo's.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 35s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-02-26
- Where
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30-40 sec
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-colorado-springs-co-1998-7f42db
In context
- Colorado Springs, CO shows up 258 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Colorado in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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