CaseFireball1998
Tacoma, WA, USA
My mother saw this, she said it came from the north towards her as she was inside looking out her window. It was a large RED FIRE BALL
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-03-14
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 to 5 min
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tacoma-wa-1998-d2ba15
In context
- One of 197 documented reports from Tacoma, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 147 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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