CaseFireball1997

Pooler, GA, USA

I was in the car at the gas station when a huge green fireball or light fly across the sky. It must have been going VERY fast. It flew

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-30
Where
Pooler, GA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
32.115, -81.247 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pooler-ga-1997-7102c4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Pooler, GA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Georgia in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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