CaseFireball1999
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Intensely fast green glowing fireball crossed the sky from nw to se over the Washington DC beltway and went below the viewable horizon.
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-14
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-washington-d-c-dc-1999-3adacf
In context
- This is one of 109 reports logged in Washington, D.C., DC.
- This case is one of 2 District of Columbia reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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