CaseFireball1998
John Day, OR, USA
About six thiety at night a orange ball was observed while driveing down the road was observed in the south eastern sky's just doing ra
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-12
- Where
- John Day, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 44.416, -118.953 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-john-day-or-1998-39bfdf
In context
- John Day, OR has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 60 reports from Oregon.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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