CaseFireball1996
Metalline Falls, WA, USA
Brilliant fireball shooting across the sky that crashed behind a mountain illuminating the entire valley.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-07-24
- Where
- Metalline Falls, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-metalline-falls-wa-1996-15f9a3
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Metalline Falls, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 115 sightings in 1996.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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