CaseFireball1988
Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
I can,t exactly remember the date.....but it was early saturday morning at about 1.15 am......My friend and I were going home after a n
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-06-01
- Where
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 8 - 10 min
- Geo
- -37.814, 144.963 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-melbourne-vic-australia-1988-e539a9
In context
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Australia in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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