CaseFireball1998
Phoenix, AZ, USA
I saw a green fireball in the sky and there was definitely an aircraft behind the ball of light.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-19
- Where
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.448, -112.074 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-phoenix-az-1998-ee27c3
Local cluster
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Phoenix, AZ in December 1998 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Phoenix, AZ has 741 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 70 reports from Arizona.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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