CaseFireball1998
Traverse City (M-72 West outside), MI, USA
A flaming ball according to my dad and what I saw was a flash through the clouds.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-01
- Where
- Traverse City (M-72 West outside), MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 to 20 seconds
- Geo
- 44.763, -85.621 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-traverse-city-m-72-west-outside-mi-1998-c2d67e
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Traverse City (M-72 West outside), MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 58 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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