CaseFireball1998
Columbia River { mile marker 230}, WA, USA
Flaring green fireball,with sparks and smoke trailing behind it. traveling vertically downward
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- Columbia River { mile marker 230}, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-columbia-river-mile-marker-230-wa-1998-153399
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Columbia River { mile marker 230}, WA.
- This case is one of 147 Washington 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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