CaseFireball1998

Harrisburg (south of, on I-83 between Exits 11 & 10), PA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Harrisburg (south of, on I-83 between Exits 11 & 10), PA, USA
Start: 1998-09-24
Location: Harrisburg (south of, on I-83 between Exits 11 & 10), PA, USA

In the western sky a fireball the size of a baseball fell. First it was white, then red and then green

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (102 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-09-24
Where: Harrisburg (south of, on I-83 between Exits 11 & 10), PA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 5-6 secs
Geo: 40.274, -76.884 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-harrisburg-south-of-on-i-83-between-exits-11-10-pa-1998-34d727

In context

One of 1 documented reports from Harrisburg (south of, on I-83 between Exits 11 & 10), PA in the UFOMYST archive.
Pennsylvania logged 48 sightings in 1998.
Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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