CaseFireball1998
Okoboji, IA, USA
A large fireball came across the sky above the lake. It was yellow then changed to green.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-20
- Where
- Okoboji, IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 43.386, -95.148 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-okoboji-ia-1998-a7a471
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Okoboji, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 18 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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