CaseFireball1998
Houston, TX, USA
I was at the Texaco gasoline loading rack on the north side of Houston. I was loading my truck, when i happened to look to the west and
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-23
- Where
- Houston, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-houston-tx-1998-569520
In context
- This is one of 410 reports logged in Houston, TX.
- This case is one of 99 Texas reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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