CaseFlash1998
Gulf Shores, AL, USA
Observing stars and saw a shooting star and a moment latter I saw a fast blinking light that zig-zagged going N NW faster than aircraft
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-25
- Where
- Gulf Shores, AL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 30.246, -87.701 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-gulf-shores-al-1998-6b20c2
In context
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Gulf Shores, AL.
- This case is one of 18 Alabama reports filed in 1998.
- Flash craft made up 1.3% of 1990s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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