CaseFireball1998
Mesa, AZ, USA
Large yellow orange fireball gliding across the sky ejected a small fireball straight down beneath it.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-03
- Where
- Mesa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.422, -111.823 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mesa-az-1998-664c95
In context
- One of 237 documented reports from Mesa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 70 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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