CaseFireball1998
Roanoke, VA, USA
IT WAS A BRIGHT BALL OF LIGHT OVER THE BLUE RIDGE MOUTAINS.IT MOVED TO THE LEFT MOVED TO THE RIGHT THEN WENT SOUTH WEST THEN WITHIN ABL
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-15
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-roanoke-va-1998-74abf9
In context
- This is one of 59 reports logged in Roanoke, VA.
- This case is one of 31 Virginia reports filed in 1998.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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