CaseFireball1998
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
2 fireballs flying north to southwest about the speed of jetliner.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-19
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-virginia-beach-va-1998-ca1e08
In context
- This is one of 176 reports logged in Virginia Beach, VA.
- This case is one of 31 Virginia 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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