CaseFireball1998
Overland Park, KS, USA
A fireball bounced out of the ground.
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 (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-16
- Where
- Overland Park, KS, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- a few seconds
- Geo
- 38.982, -94.671 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-overland-park-ks-1998-a199e1
In context
- Overland Park, KS shows up 49 times across the archive.
- 17 reports came from Kansas in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate 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.