CaseFireball1999
Oakton, VA, USA
Something burst out of the sky and plummeted downward. It had a green glow like fire and no tail of light visible. It then disappeare
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-14
- Where
- Oakton, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.881, -77.301 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oakton-va-1999-0789ac
In context
- Oakton, VA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 38 reports from Virginia.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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