CaseFireball1998
Mt. Vernon, OR, USA
Bright Blue (as that of an arc welder) light, that lit up entire landscape. It was 1/4 dia of moon (in arc seconds)
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-28
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-5 sec
- Geo
- 44.418, -119.114 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mt-vernon-or-1998-e666de
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Mt. Vernon, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 60 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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