CaseFireball1998
Cincinnati, OH, USA
like shooting star or meteorite but had a rather long tail.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-28
- Where
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10seconds
- Geo
- 39.127, -84.514 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cincinnati-oh-1998-cb0dab
In context
- This is one of 159 reports logged in Cincinnati, OH.
- This case is one of 71 Ohio reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.