CaseFireball1998
Seattle, WA, USA
FIREBALL CAME STRAIGHT DOWN FROM THE SKY, IT HAD A TAIL GOING STRAIGHT UP LASTED 2 TO 3 SECONDS AND DISAPPEARED.
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 (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-26
- Where
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 SECONDS
- Geo
- 47.606, -122.332 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-seattle-wa-1998-eca907
In context
- Seattle, WA has 713 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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