CaseFireball1998
Santa Fe, NM, USA
We saw the object in the sky south of Santa Fe just after sunset. It looked like a glowing white sphere against the indigo sky, and was
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-05-28
- Where
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 min.
- Geo
- 35.687, -105.938 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-fe-nm-1998-52b1de
In context
- This is one of 139 reports logged in Santa Fe, NM.
- This case is one of 26 New Mexico 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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