CaseSphere1998
The Dalles, OR, USA
Green comet-like object w/ tail. (I judge it was a shooting star?!) Slow straight fall northeast of city, in the direction of Spokane,
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-18
- Where
- The Dalles, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 45.595, -121.179 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-the-dalles-or-1998-397d01
In context
- This is one of 19 reports logged in The Dalles, OR.
- This case is one of 60 Oregon reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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.