CaseFireball1998
El Paso, TX, USA
IN REFERENCE TO THE BALL OF LIGHT SEEN BY THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL ON THIS DATE. I WAS DRIVING HOME FROM WORK WHEN I SAW TWO BIG FIREBALLS
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-03
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- FEW SECONDS
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-el-paso-tx-1998-c2ec83
In context
- This is one of 123 reports logged in El Paso, TX.
- This case is one of 99 Texas reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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