CaseFireball1998
Hudson Valley, NY/Danbury, CT (near Taconic Parkway), CT, USA
Driving east toward Danbury on I-84, near the Taconic parkway, myself and a passenger noticed a bright "glowing" orange sphere in the
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-14
- Where
- Hudson Valley, NY/Danbury, CT (near Taconic Parkway), CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-hudson-valley-ny-danbury-ct-near-taconic-parkway-ct-1998-3691cd
In context
- Hudson Valley, NY/Danbury, CT (near Taconic Parkway), CT has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 15 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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