CaseFireball1998
Chesterfield, MO, USA
2 fireballs chasing each other, one runs into another, hear a soft explosion, and it vanishes.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-07
- Where
- Chesterfield, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.663, -90.577 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chesterfield-mo-1998-d01919
In context
- This is one of 14 reports logged in Chesterfield, MO.
- This case is one of 38 Missouri reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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