CaseFireball1998
Carmel, IN, USA
I went outside to pick up the trash cans and i saw 10-15 jets heading in the same direction towards two fireballs. I remember thinking
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-15
- Where
- Carmel, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.978, -86.118 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-carmel-in-1998-3cb521
In context
- Carmel, IN shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 31 reports came from Indiana in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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