CaseFireball1998
Grants Pass (Murphy area), OR, USA
Flying from the South going North East. The green fireball with barely a tail came between two trees on the land behind our home, and
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-13
- Where
- Grants Pass (Murphy area), OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- App. 3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.439, -123.331 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-grants-pass-murphy-area-or-1998-4e7755
In context
- Grants Pass (Murphy area), OR shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Oregon in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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