CaseFireball1998
Charleston, SC, USA
I work a Chas. AfB and I walked off an airplane and looked across the horizon and saw it moving horizontally. I have seen thousands of
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-05
- Where
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 32.776, -79.933 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-charleston-sc-1998-aa270e
In context
- Charleston, SC has 72 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 26 reports from South Carolina.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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