CaseFireball1998
Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway), SC, USA
glowing ball with fire-like tail shooting across sky from Atlantic Ocean toward United States...ball began to fade out then shot off ag
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway), SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- @ 7 Seconds
- Geo
- 35.070, -81.555 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-goat-island-isle-of-palm-between-intracoastal-waterway-sc-1998-945e15
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway), SC.
- This case is one of 26 South Carolina reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.