CaseFireball1998
Oregon, OH, USA
Bright Orange Fireball appeared in SW sky. Traveled slowly at about 30degrees across the southern sky toward the east. No sound, long t
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-27
- Where
- Oregon, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.644, -83.487 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oregon-oh-1998-35174c
In context
- Oregon, OH shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Ohio in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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