CaseFireball1998
Westfield (5 Miles North of), IN, USA
This was observed while driviing north on US 31. Object flying WNW from ESE app. 500 ft. alt., at 4-500 mph. Medium brightness yellowi
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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-01
- Where
- Westfield (5 Miles North of), IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-12 Seconds
- Geo
- 40.043, -86.127 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-westfield-5-miles-north-of-in-1998-567eaa
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Westfield (5 Miles North of), IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 31 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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