CaseFireball1998
Norfolk, VA, USA
Intensely bright green fireball almost the diameter of the moon shot across the sky. Long bright green trail. Visible for 3 seconds o
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-05
- Where
- Norfolk, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 36.847, -76.285 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-norfolk-va-1998-3dedcd
In context
- Norfolk, VA shows up 52 times across the archive.
- 31 reports came from Virginia in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.