CaseFireball1998
Houston, TX, USA
I saw a fireball fall from the sky.
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (35 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
- 2-3 sec.
- Geo
- 29.763, -95.363 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-houston-tx-1998-c77b64
In context
- Houston, TX shows up 410 times across the archive.
- 99 reports came from Texas 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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