CaseFireball1998
Peabody, MA, USA
flash of light in sky. fireball coming down to earth at a 90 degree angle.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-09
- Where
- Peabody, MA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2sec.
- Geo
- 42.528, -70.929 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-peabody-ma-1998-8481c2
In context
- Peabody, MA has 12 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 27 reports from Massachusetts.
- 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.