CaseFireball1998
Vancouver, WA, USA
A 5 second slow 60 degree arc of light; slower & brighter greenish glow toward end of arc traveling east to west.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-23
- Where
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-vancouver-wa-1998-10b97b
In context
- This is one of 223 reports logged in Vancouver, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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