CaseFireball1998
Spokane, WA, USA
extremely bright light appearing to the south of our location moving straight down from upper atmoshpere to ground was not moveing hori
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-30
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spokane-wa-1998-f43f09
In context
- Spokane, WA shows up 235 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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