CaseFireball1998
The Dalles, OR, USA
I was laying in my bed looking through the window which faces to the west. When suddenly a bright orange ball of fire appeared. I watch
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-14
- Where
- The Dalles, OR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 45.595, -121.179 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-the-dalles-or-1998-29aa52
In context
- The Dalles, OR has 19 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 60 reports from Oregon.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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