CaseFireball1998
Yakima, WA, USA
A large, bright green was moving south. It was coming from the Ellensburg area. It was moving slow, stopped in mid air, then shot off a
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-29
- Where
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10seconds
- Geo
- 46.602, -120.506 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-yakima-wa-1998-890a28
In context
- One of 113 documented reports from Yakima, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 147 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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