CaseFireball1998
James Island, SC, USA
Meteor? Flash of brillant whiite light across sky in front of waxing full moon covered by cirrus clouds - then a fireball about the
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-04
- Where
- James Island, SC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 32.724, -79.963 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-james-island-sc-1998-977c5e
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from James Island, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
- South Carolina logged 26 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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