CaseFireball1998
Wanaque, NJ, USA
My girlfriend saw an object fall to the ground it was bright and about half the size of a full moon.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-07
- Where
- Wanaque, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 41.038, -74.294 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wanaque-nj-1998-8efdd5
In context
- Wanaque, NJ has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 27 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.