CaseFireball1998
Manchester, NY, USA
green fire ball seen in the sky 3/4 the size of the moon.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-10
- Where
- Manchester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3seconds
- Geo
- 42.970, -77.230 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-manchester-ny-1998-91d249
In context
- Manchester, NY shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from New York 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.