UFOMYST
CaseFireball1998

Seattle, WA, USA

While travelling south on highway 509 (south of 1st south bridge), a greenish fireball observed in SouthWest sky at about 10 o'clock hi

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
1998-09-23
Where
Seattle, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
47.606, -122.332 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-seattle-wa-1998-d0d1c4
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Seattle, WA in September 1998 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Seattle, WA has 713 sightings on file here.
  • 1998 brought 147 reports from Washington.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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