CaseFireball1998
Big Rapids, MI, USA
greenish fire ball coming down from sky with long tail on it.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-28
- Where
- Big Rapids, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- less than 10 sec
- Geo
- 43.698, -85.484 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-big-rapids-mi-1998-8edbe0
In context
- Big Rapids, MI has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 58 reports from Michigan.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.