CaseFireball1998
Charleston, WV, USA
A bright green fireball flew across the sky. It was about the size of the full moon and looked much brighter.
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 (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-27
- Where
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 or 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.350, -81.633 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-charleston-wv-1998-8e7e89
In context
- One of 36 documented reports from Charleston, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 10 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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