CaseFireball1998
Medina, OH, USA
Red/Orange fire ball, Baseball size with sparks, smoke, and trail.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-07
- Where
- Medina, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 - 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.138, -81.864 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-medina-oh-1998-9afe67
In context
- One of 27 documented reports from Medina, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 71 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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