CaseFireball1998
Rio Rancho, NM, USA
Sighted during the major meteor shower last year.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-01
- Where
- Rio Rancho, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 35.233, -106.664 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rio-rancho-nm-1998-a81a2b
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In context
- One of 45 documented reports from Rio Rancho, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 26 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
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