CaseFireball1998
Friday Harbor, WA, USA
A bright greenish object streaked into view moving south and was visible for a few seconds; disappeared to the south.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-22
- Where
- Friday Harbor, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- a few seconds
- Geo
- 48.534, -123.017 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-friday-harbor-wa-1998-d9b5a3
In context
- Friday Harbor, WA shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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