CaseFireball1998

Tumwater (driving N on I-5), WA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Tumwater (driving N on I-5), WA, USA
Start: 1998-10-26
Location: Tumwater (driving N on I-5), WA, USA

Large Blue Fireball with a tail flying in a northern direction. This object was not a typical falling star. The object than disappeare

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: 2s (an atypical range)
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1998-10-26
Where: Tumwater (driving N on I-5), WA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 2-3 Seconds
Geo: 47.007, -122.909 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-tumwater-driving-n-on-i-5-wa-1998-329340

In context

One of 1 documented reports from Tumwater (driving N on I-5), 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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