CaseFireball1998
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Bright flickering, lightning like flash, white/yellow glowing sparks, followed by three dull booms after 2-3 minutes
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 (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-07
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-1998-b20722
In context
- This is one of 741 reports logged in Phoenix, AZ.
- This case is one of 70 Arizona reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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