CaseFireball1998
Rochester, NY, USA
Walking dog, looked up, saw large orange fireball with a long orange tail streak across sky directly above.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-29
- Where
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 secs
- Geo
- 43.155, -77.616 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rochester-ny-1998-6aa11d
In context
- Rochester, NY shows up 139 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from New York in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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