CaseFireball1998

Columbia, TN, USA

Greenish-blue fireball at approx. 45 degree angle, moving east to west, first observed at highest point approx.one o'clock position, mo

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-11-27
Where
Columbia, TN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 SEC.
Geo
35.615, -87.035 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-columbia-tn-1998-e70b22

In context

  • Columbia, TN has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 1998 brought 30 reports from Tennessee.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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