CaseFireball1998
Moab, UT, USA
What I saw was I large fire ball going across the sky. I was there for about 5 minutes then vanished behind a cloud.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-23
- Where
- Moab, UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 38.573, -109.550 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-moab-ut-1998-bbcd1a
In context
- Moab, UT has 16 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 21 reports from Utah.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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