CaseFireball1999
Wheeling, WV, USA
Driving west on Interstate 70, watched a bright green light passing above me moving heading west. Was visable until it went behind hil
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-03-27
- Where
- Wheeling, WV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.064, -80.721 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wheeling-wv-1999-f7f330
In context
- Wheeling, WV shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 28 reports came from West Virginia in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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