CaseFireball1998
Severn, MD, USA
Observed green fireball in South sky falling straight down
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-17
- Where
- Severn, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 39.137, -76.698 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-severn-md-1998-8cb43a
In context
- Severn, MD shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Maryland in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.