CaseFireball1998
Indianapolis, IN, USA
I saw a green-white fire ball moving west southwest. It looked like(size and shape) the HailBop comet but, moving much faster.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-13
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4sec
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-indianapolis-in-1998-fb861c
In context
- This is one of 248 reports logged in Indianapolis, IN.
- This case is one of 31 Indiana reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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