CaseFireball1998
Seattle (I-5 at about NE 65th), WA, USA
While driving north on I-5 at approximately NE 65th and looking to the northwest towards Greenlake, I saw an electric blue fireball tha
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-23
- Where
- Seattle (I-5 at about NE 65th), WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 second or less
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-seattle-i-5-at-about-ne-65th-wa-1998-b10c9c
In context
- Seattle (I-5 at about NE 65th), WA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 147 reports from Washington.
- 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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