CaseFireball1999
Montesano, WA, USA
streaking fireball appeared and then disappeared and then reppeared. low angle of trajectory and very bright.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-20
- Where
- Montesano, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 - 10 sec
- Geo
- 46.981, -123.603 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-montesano-wa-1999-8aace6
In context
- Montesano, WA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 237 reports from Washington.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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