UFOMYST
CaseFireball1990

Hoquiam, WA, USA

driving home from ocean city,to hoquiam. my at the girlfriend and I noticed two orange "fireballs" hovering over Bowerman Basin.The big

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-09-20
Where
Hoquiam, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 min.
Geo
46.981, -123.889 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hoquiam-wa-1990-915421
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • Hoquiam, WA shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 10 reports came from Washington in 1990.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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