CaseFireball1998

I-405 North-bound, between 124th and 160th, WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — I-405 North-bound, between 124th and 160th, WA, USA
Start: 1998-10-26
Location: I-405 North-bound, between 124th and 160th, WA, USA

A very bright tourqoise ball with a red tail, close to the ground, seemed to explode or flash out at tree level.

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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)
Moderate witness text (112 characters)
Location could not be geocoded
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-10-26
Where: I-405 North-bound, between 124th and 160th, WA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 3-4 seconds
Geo: —
Slug: fireball-over-i-405-north-bound-between-124th-and-160th-wa-1998-78718e

In context

I-405 North-bound, between 124th and 160th, WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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