CaseFireball1998
Leavenworth, KS, USA
The ufo appeared as a falling star except that it was falling more straight down instead of arching across the sky. It was blue W/Blue
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-13
- Where
- Leavenworth, KS, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 39.311, -94.922 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-leavenworth-ks-1998-bfc4cd
In context
- Leavenworth, KS has 21 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 17 reports from Kansas.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.