CaseFireball1998
Columbus, TX, USA
Was heading back to Houston Tx, when I saw a green fireball streak across the sky from west to east. Only it sorta dashed across like s
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-06
- Where
- Columbus, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 29.707, -96.540 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-columbus-tx-1998-d6789a
In context
- Columbus, TX shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 99 reports came from Texas in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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