CaseFireball1998
Moline, IL, USA
Wife reported a brilliant flash of green light with a tail. She saw the video of the recent leonids and insists it did not look like t
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-20
- Where
- Moline, IL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 Sec.
- Geo
- 41.507, -90.515 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-moline-il-1998-a0f6bf
In context
- Moline, IL shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 66 reports came from Illinois in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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