CaseFireball1998
Tyson's Corner, VA, USA
Very large and bright blue-green fireball witnessed while driving North-bound on I-495 (The Beltway).
Report quality: Moderate41/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-15
- Where
- Tyson's Corner, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-tyson-s-corner-va-1998-0592e5
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Tyson's Corner, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 31 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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