CaseFireball1998
Akron, OH, USA
Looking at sky before entering work building. Observed orange fireball. Object was observed while standing in parking lot. Clear sky, n
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-11
- Where
- Akron, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 41.081, -81.519 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-akron-oh-1998-d5b39a
In context
- One of 63 documented reports from Akron, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 71 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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