CaseFireball1999

Yakima (About 10-30 miles NW of), WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Yakima (About 10-30 miles NW of), WA, USA
Start: 1999-08-09
Location: Yakima (About 10-30 miles NW of), WA, USA

Comet-like object, high in sky, set at \ angle, nearly vertical, stationary, no aircraft in sight.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (98 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-08-09
Where: Yakima (About 10-30 miles NW of), WA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: about 2-3 minutes (we lef
Geo: 46.602, -120.506 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-yakima-about-10-30-miles-nw-of-wa-1999-0a3777

In context

Yakima (About 10-30 miles NW of), WA has 1 sightings on file here.
1999 brought 237 reports from Washington.
The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

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