CaseFireball1998
Middletown, NJ, USA
3-second fireball flies over me.
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 (32 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-11
- Where
- Middletown, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.394, -74.117 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-middletown-nj-1998-23b3c0
In context
- Middletown, NJ has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 27 reports from New Jersey.
- 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.