CaseFireball1998
Fort Lewis, WA, USA
Green fireball seen north of my location. Looking through a gap between trees, we saw a fireball slowly move to the ground (roughly 1
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-25
- Where
- Fort Lewis, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 47.062, -122.583 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fort-lewis-wa-1998-82e031
In context
- Fort Lewis, WA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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