UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Olympia, WA, USA

Fireball object in Puget Sound Area

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Olympia, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
47.045, -122.902 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-olympia-wa-1997-eb87ef
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Olympia, WA has 112 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 89 reports from Washington.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.