CaseFireball1998
Tacoma (southwest of), WA, USA
At 10 min. after 9pm I was facing to the south during my lunch break when I saw a fireball with a green tail traveling east to west at
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-23
- Where
- Tacoma (southwest of), WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tacoma-southwest-of-wa-1998-7b46bd
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Tacoma (southwest of), WA.
- This case is one of 147 Washington reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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