CaseFireball1998
Rome, GA, USA
NE to NW Very fast and low flying, White light changing to Bright blue, then blueish red glow, turning to red, then turning solid yello
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-06
- Where
- Rome, GA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-7 sec
- Geo
- 34.257, -85.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rome-ga-1998-328cb8
In context
- Rome, GA has 23 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 32 reports from Georgia.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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