CaseFireball1998

Nashville, TN, USA

Unusual Blue Light (Meteorite or Flare) 2 minutes observed traveling south to north.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-02-25
Where
Nashville, TN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
36.166, -86.784 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-nashville-tn-1998-3a7834

In context

  • Nashville, TN shows up 170 times across the archive.
  • 30 reports came from Tennessee in 1998.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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