CaseFireball1988
Mendham, NJ, USA
I saw an orange fireball pass through the woods and cross the road ahead of me
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-08-15
- Where
- Mendham, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.776, -74.601 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mendham-nj-1988-d2f4c2
In context
- Mendham, NJ shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from New Jersey in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 2.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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