CaseFireball1998
Vancouver (watching from field at barn), WA, USA
Saw a large ball of light while at my barn in the evening. The sky was clear no rain, clouds. It sailed over my head due north.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-26
- Where
- Vancouver (watching from field at barn), WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 45.639, -122.661 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-vancouver-watching-from-field-at-barn-wa-1998-7d9199
In context
- Vancouver (watching from field at barn), WA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Washington in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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