CaseFireball1981
The Dalles, OR, USA
Ball of fire moving up the Columbia River. Just made a "B" line. No sudden movement
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-06-01
- Where
- The Dalles, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 45.595, -121.179 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-the-dalles-or-1981-563781
In context
- This is one of 19 reports logged in The Dalles, OR.
- This case is one of 8 Oregon reports filed in 1981.
- Fireball craft made up 2.8% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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