CaseFireball1988
Salem, NJ, USA
Me and my girlfriend was leaving Whispering Waters apartments when we saw a large green fireball moving North to South while facing Ken
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-06-30
- Where
- Salem, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.572, -75.467 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-salem-nj-1988-e7fda7
In context
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Salem, NJ.
- This case is one of 7 New Jersey reports filed in 1988.
- Fireball craft made up 2.8% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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