CaseFireball1998
Portland, OR, USA
I was driving over the burnside bridge into downtown Portland, A metallic green fireball very slow in nature. slower than the dozens of
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-18
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 sec
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-portland-or-1998-501b71
In context
- One of 557 documented reports from Portland, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
- Oregon logged 60 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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