CaseFireball1998
Scranton, KS, USA
My son and I saw a something slowly falling out of the sky. It looked like a VW on fire very bright and moving very slowly downward.
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-29
- Where
- Scranton, KS, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30-45 seconds
- Geo
- 38.782, -95.739 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-scranton-ks-1998-5622d7
In context
- Scranton, KS shows up 1 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
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