CaseFireball1996
University Place, WA, USA
It was the fourth of july, actually the evening before. I was driving down 67th avenue, going towards lakewood, when I saw this big fi
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-07-03
- Where
- University Place, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 47.236, -122.550 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-university-place-wa-1996-8c78c8
In context
- This is one of 20 reports logged in University Place, WA.
- This case is one of 115 Washington reports filed in 1996.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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