CaseFireball1998
Bar Harbor, ME, USA
It looked like an audio tape. Was moving very slow in the night.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-16
- Where
- Bar Harbor, ME, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds?
- Geo
- 44.388, -68.204 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bar-harbor-me-1998-7531d1
In context
- Bar Harbor, ME shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from Maine in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.