CaseFireball1998
Grand Rapids (North of), MI, USA
Blue-green fireball appears, lighting the ground all around. Long "tail" has a small white light on it
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-02
- Where
- Grand Rapids (North of), MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.963, -85.668 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-grand-rapids-north-of-mi-1998-54118b
In context
- Grand Rapids (North of), MI shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from Michigan 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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