CaseFireball1998
Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway), SC, USA
saw a glowing sphere with a tail shoot across the sky from the West to East (from US toward Atlantic Ocean)
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-28
- Where
- Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway), SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- @10 seconds
- Geo
- 35.070, -81.555 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-goat-island-isle-of-palm-between-intracoastal-waterway-sc-1998-a070b6
In context
- Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway), SC shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from South Carolina in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.