CaseFireball1998
Spencer, IA, USA
Traveling north on US Highway 71 at approx. 2am on the north edge of Spencer. Saw blueish green fireball traveling west to east. Had r
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-26
- Where
- Spencer, IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 SECONDS
- Geo
- 43.141, -95.144 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spencer-ia-1998-8d5639
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Spencer, IA.
- This case is one of 18 Iowa 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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