CaseFireball1998
Colorado Springs (north of, on I-25), CO, USA
A friend and I witnessed a pulsating, intensely bright, fireball near I-25 between Colorado Springs and Castle Rock. The fireball broke
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-11
- Where
- Colorado Springs (north of, on I-25), CO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 38.834, -104.821 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-colorado-springs-north-of-on-i-25-co-1998-d913de
In context
- Colorado Springs (north of, on I-25), CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 64 reports came from Colorado in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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