CaseFireball1998
Poole, Dorset (UK/England), United Kingdom
Sighting of strange orange light (ball of fire?) in Poole Dorset 1998
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-08
- Where
- Poole, Dorset (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds?
- Geo
- 50.714, -1.985 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-poole-dorset-uk-england-1998-305f3b
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Poole, Dorset (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
- United Kingdom logged 53 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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