CaseFireball1998
St.Helens, OR, USA
brass/gold sparkling, no tail taveling east to west, rather slowly. tennis ball size at arms lenght in size, low in the horizon, no sou
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-20
- Where
- St.Helens, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 secs
- Geo
- 45.864, -122.806 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-st-helens-or-1998-ca7717
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in St.Helens, OR.
- This case is one of 60 Oregon 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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