CaseFireball1998
Manitowoc Rapids, WI, USA
Incredibly bright fireball in southeast direction
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-17
- Where
- Manitowoc Rapids, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- a few seconds
- Geo
- 44.099, -87.701 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-manitowoc-rapids-wi-1998-5cf014
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Manitowoc Rapids, WI.
- This case is one of 38 Wisconsin reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.