CaseFireball1998
Austin, TX, USA
Saw a glowing fireball plunge through the sky towards earth.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-16
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-tx-1998-88576e
In context
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 99 Texas reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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