CaseFireball1983
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Green Fireball the size of a full moon at an approximate altitude of 1000 feet
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1983
- Where
- Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 39.811, -84.057 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wright-patterson-afb-oh-1983-18215f
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
- This case is one of 6 Ohio reports filed in 1983.
- Fireball craft made up 2.8% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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