UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Ellensburg (? on a pass just pass, just east of), WA, USA

Orange orb

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (10 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-01-15
Where
Ellensburg (? on a pass just pass, just east of), WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
46.997, -120.548 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ellensburg-on-a-pass-just-pass-just-east-of-wa-1997-37440e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Ellensburg (? on a pass just pass, just east of), WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 89 sightings in 1997.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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