NUFORC Report Index for Month 199810

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image
Open	10/01/1998 01:30	St. Paul	OR	USA	Fireball	We own a farm here in St. Paul. We (my mother and I) had pulled off to the side of the road to check on some farm equipment we had in a	10/01/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/02/1998 19:55	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Light	Heavy Blue Light beamed down and chased family in house, simular to 50 foot wide search light.	10/01/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/01/1998 21:02	Mt Sterling	IL	USA	Formation	3 orange fireballs in triangle formation - 1 triangle shaped craft without sound.	10/02/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 04:45	Yamhill	OR	USA	Fireball	A blue/green ball of light.	10/04/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Gold Canyon	AZ	USA	Oval	Two ellipses, the first one was slightly larger than the second and they appeared attached or tethered to one another	10/04/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 02:45	Albuquerque	NM	USA		VERY bright white light, appeared to be about half the diameter of the moon.	10/05/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/05/1998 23:29	Newhall	CA	USA	Sphere	Luminous, green, round sphere of light moved across sky fron S to WSW	10/05/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/05/1998 20:55	Houston	TX	USA	Formation	4 oblects moving in A tetrahedral pattern, with A fourth object directly behind	10/05/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	The sky lit light heat lightening then the a ball of light was shooting across the sky. My thought was it looked like a Roman candle b	10/06/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:10	Charleston	SC	USA	Flash	Observed very bright sky illumination over Charleston, SC. 1-2 seconds duration.	10/06/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 04:37	Suquamish	WA	USA	Flash	very intense lighting up of the sky	10/06/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	James Island	SC	USA	Fireball	Meteor? Flash of brillant whiite light across sky in front of waxing full moon covered by cirrus clouds - then a fireball about the	10/06/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/08/1998 21:12	Austin	TX	USA	Triangle	Triangular shaped object moving from north to south. Object was barely discernable from the night sky. Leading edges faint orange. No	10/08/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	streaking blue/green fireball lit up sky. fireball going east to west and appeared to disintergrate after 3-4 seconds	10/06/1998	01/11/2002
Open	10/06/1998 20:05	Bellevue/Issaquah	WA	USA	Unknown	Dashes of silver light. Traveling at an upward angle from the south to north.	10/07/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:15	Goat Island/Isle of Palm (between, Intracoastal Waterway)	SC	USA	Fireball	glowing ball with fire-like tail shooting across sky from Atlantic Ocean toward United States...ball began to fade out then shot off ag	10/07/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/14/1998 19:55	Overton	NV	USA	Fireball	Approx. 7:55PM on 10/14/98 while travelling North-bound from Overton, NV. I witnessed what appeared to be a "falling star" directly Nor	10/15/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/14/1998 19:55	Otis	OR	USA	Other	From WSW to ENE, crescent shaped object,blue,white in color. Slower than normal meteor speed.	10/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 14:30	Mount Carmel	TN	USA	Light	Bright shiny object splits in two and disappears above horizon.	10/14/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 04:42	Aberdeen	WA	USA	Fireball	Descending fiery object exploded and lit up whole sky momentarily like transformer explosion at high altitude	10/09/1998	08/05/2001
Open	10/09/1998 22:00	Richmond	KY	USA	Disk	Two of my children and a friend were out on the trampoline, and saw a disc like structure flying very fast and stoped and dropped what	10/09/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/09/1998 19:40	Oakland - Near the Bay Bridge	CA	USA	Fireball	It looked like a large remote control firework that was going East to West, occasionally disappearing and reappearing.	10/10/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 02:15	Montara	CA	USA	Other	Boomerang shaped lit up at the neds and center of the boomerang.	10/15/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/15/1998 16:01	Winston-Salem	NC	USA	Sphere	silver-white sphere crossed sky in 12 sec.	10/15/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 21:45	Tampa	FL	USA	Circle	A LITTLE LARGER THAN A FULL MOON (WHITE IN COLOR). TWO FAST MOVING CIRCLES MOVING IN LARGE CIRCLES. ANOTHER DRIFTING SLOWLY. NO SOUND	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 21:35	Deweyville	UT	USA	Sphere	My son and I,were driving home going northbound along HWY39 we noticed a very bright large green sphericial object traveling east to no	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/18/1998 09:30	Jacksonville	IL	USA	Light	First one appeared in the eastern sky and moved slowly south, about 10 minutes later another light appeared in the same spot the first	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 21:30	Defiance	OH	USA	Triangle	I was pulling out of a drive when I noticed a triangular craft with a light at each corner two white one blue I pulled over to get a be	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/22/1998 02:40	Silverlake	WA	USA	Light	Object shaped like a 1/4 moon moving rapidly south, then turned east for a few seconds then back south. It had a dull "glow" about it,	10/22/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/21/1998 22:42	Columbia	TN	USA	Formation	U-shaped formation of orange gold lights travelling south at high speed.	10/21/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/22/1998 23:40	Newtown Square	PA	USA	Oval	Shape was rounded but slightly elongated with slight fin-like sides. Moving very slowly: not stationary like a star but too slowly to	10/23/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 21:45	Georgia (ZIP 30458)	GA	USA	Triangle	Triangle shape UFO Moving slowly over house. Several red glowing lights underneath not blinking. Saw it thru the sunroof and went outsi	10/23/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 16:30	Big Arm	MT	USA	Disk	Facing East, clear sky, characterized by bright light blinking at very cadence from one to five. Movement pattern was up, down, then t	10/23/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/10/1998 13:15	Elgin	IL	USA	Cylinder	While looking up at sky I noticed a bright light hovering above the sky. then I noticed a jet airliner traveling in the same area and I	10/10/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 14:05	Vega Baja (Puerto Rico)	PR	USA	Cigar	I went out and saw this cigar shaped object, high above, about where the sun would be at 12 o'clock. I stared at it trying to identify	10/11/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Charleston	SC	USA	Fireball	Saw a large reddish orange fireball with a long green tail..	10/11/1998	09/19/2002
Open	10/11/1998 20:30	Highland	IN	USA	Sphere	Spherical. Red, yellow, and green lights. Below clouds, yet very high up.	10/11/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/06/1998 19:05	Denver	CO	USA	Fireball	Red fireball with red tail traveling east to west	10/11/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 20:30	Highland	IN	USA	Sphere	Possible shperical object in northern sky. Colors were green over yellow over red. Disappeard, then reappeared west of original locat	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/01/1998 21:15	Ipava	IL	USA	Triangle	An object which resmbled car headlights in the sky was spotted to SW. A discernable craft flew directly overhead and proceeded to disa	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 22:45	Elk Grove	CA	USA	Fireball	Greenish blue fireball streaking across horizon	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/01/1998 00:10	Portland	OR	USA	Light	GETTING OUT OF MY CAR TO WORK,I SAW A WIDE GREEN STREAK OF LIGHT IN THE SOUTHWEST SKY,FROM SKY TO GROUND...........	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/02/1998 09:20	Sedona	AZ	USA	Fireball	Object like a white fireball, with a short tail, hovering	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 05:00	Columbia River { mile marker 230}	WA	USA	Fireball	Flaring green fireball,with sparks and smoke trailing behind it. traveling vertically downward	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/01/1998 18:56	Manchester	NH	USA	Oval	hovering above city landfill. beam of light from craft to ground.	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/10/1998 17:30	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Cigar	White, vertical cigar shape floating around in the eastern sky.	10/12/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/15/1998 19:48	Tyson's Corner	VA	USA	Fireball	Very large and bright blue-green fireball witnessed while driving North-bound on I-495 (The Beltway).	10/16/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/03/1998 14:30	Carbondale	IL	USA	Changing	a Black object not moving. It was about 1500-2000 feet in altitude, and about the size of a gumball held at arms length.	10/16/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/11/1998 22:40	Bar Harbor (Bar Island Crossover)	ME	USA	Sphere	My friend Steven and I were crossing over to Bar Island at low tide when we witnesses a green spherical object crossing the sky at a gr	10/16/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/16/1998 20:00	Middletown	CT	USA	Unknown	The object was traveling at a very high altitude, at first glance I thought it might be a sattelite, but it made a few stops, then a dr	10/16/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/16/1998 19:00	San Francisco	CA	USA	Light	Every night - all through the night, there have been 5 "star-like" crafts in the sky over the San Francisco Bay. The brightest is in th	10/17/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/16/1998 21:55	Carbondale	IL	USA	Sphere	I saw a spherical object at a distance. It had a slight green glow. It just appeared, then took off in a northeast direction very qui	10/17/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/17/1998 02:17	Ottawa (Woodroffe & Baseline) (Canada)	ON	Canada	Light	from centre of Orion, a seemingly far off single point of light, brightness of a star, moved downward to horizon, side to side (about 2	10/17/1998	12/02/2000
Open	10/18/1998 00:01	The Dalles	OR	USA	Sphere	Green comet-like object w/ tail. (I judge it was a shooting star?!) Slow straight fall northeast of city, in the direction of Spokane,	10/18/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/14/1998 01:45	South Eastern Coast (Republic of Ireland)		Ireland	Chevron	Was at a hotel on the southern coast of Ireland, just enjoying the night air, when a light appeared about 30 degrees off the horizon,	10/18/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/10/1998 20:50	Mooresville	NC	USA	Light	Star gazing in back yard with telescope and binos. Saw shooting star and an oblong shape of light.	10/18/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/15/1998 18:00	Warwick	RI	USA	Other	Bright flat object moved upwards and disapeared behind cloads.	10/18/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 12:42	Vancouver	WA	USA	Light	I saw a green phosphorous light in the sky west from Vancouver Washington, and a bit to the south, appearing to drop with a very slight	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/15/1998 20:00	Fort Lawn	SC	USA	Light	I've seen these craft for a few years now, but only in cool/cold weather. They seem to have a leader, a large orange ball of light with	10/19/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/18/1998 23:35	Dublin (Blanchardstown) (Republic of Ireland)		Ireland	Light	A moving star in the sky, jerking, zig-zaging, etc...	10/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/18/1998 04:30	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Sphere	SOFT BALL SIZE FLOATING BALL OF LIGHT. APPEARED TO BE UNDER SOME TYPE OF CONTROL.	10/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/17/1998 03:38	Lake Stevens	WA	USA	Light	Craft with unusual sound flies over dark and fog shrouded Lake Stevens while being pursued by fast moving car.	10/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/20/1998 18:00	Moorpark	CA	USA	Oval	Oval shaped metallic rotating object with blinking lights. At first sighting it was rotating above a house then zoomed in closer to me.	10/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/18/1998 18:00	Germantown	TN	USA	Light	I saw a white light move from left to right, back to the left then it dissapered.	10/20/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 00:30	Marina del Rey	CA	USA		I hung up the phone with a friend and went to bed. I had pulled the covers around my shoulders and my eyes were closed. With closed eye	10/21/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/23/1998 19:00	Humeston	IA	USA	Circle	hovering objects sighted in iowa.	10/24/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/04/1998 21:00	Savannah (central)	GA	USA	Fireball	I was sitting on the deck of the Best Western Hotel at Savannah and I saw a streak across the sky with flames trailing.	10/24/1998	10/30/2006
Open	10/23/1998 21:45	Alexandria	LA	USA	Fireball	greenish white fireball ascending across clear night sky fromeast to west following an irregular flight path and chg's in speed.when ob	10/24/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/25/1998 20:25	Perrine	FL	USA	Formation	My son and I were looking at constellations when suddenly 4 illuminated units flying in a triangle formation came across the sky, from	10/25/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/12/1998 04:00	Lincoln	NE	USA	Egg	3 Lights not as egg shaped but close, thumb nail. Flying in tryangle formation flew over for 7 seconds not to close but not far away. f	10/25/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/19/1998 01:30	Las Vegas	NV	USA	Sphere	Bright green comet streak.	10/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 04:50	Pewaukee	WI	USA	Fireball	three blue green firebals falling.	10/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/25/1998 18:30	State College	PA	USA	Disk	saw large craft with 2 small craft at sunset.thought were jets but were not...barely make out faint outline of mothercraft.....ufo's fl	10/26/1998	09/28/2002
Open	10/26/1998 03:23	Kaufman (outside of)	TX	USA	Light	Large oval light, with smaller red light on top that was not blinking, in northern skies.	10/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/25/1998 21:20	Pocatello	ID	USA	Light	I was looking out my kitchen door when I saw at a distance a bright flickering white light that appeared to have a diamond shape with r	10/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 23:14	Scottsdale	AZ	USA	Other	I heard a very loud noise like a jet engine on the next block. I looked in that direction (E-NE) and heard a second noise exactly the	10/26/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/27/1998 03:32	Newport	TN	USA	Circle	While traveling East on I40, between Newport, Tn. and Ashville, Nc. I saw an object streak across the sky. The weather was clear. The s	10/27/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 18:18	Tumwater (driving N on I-5)	WA	USA	Fireball	Large Blue Fireball with a tail flying in a northern direction. This object was not a typical falling star. The object than disappeare	10/27/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/24/1998 17:00	Wilmington	NC	USA	Sphere	Approx 1 hour before dusk, 7 chrome-colored spheres appeared in the north/northwest sky. The objects didn't appear to be balloons and w	10/27/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/10/1998 02:30	Hollywood	CA	USA	Changing	I was standing outside on Sunset Blvd. at Vine and looked straight up which I normally do not do. I saw three bright white lights in a	10/27/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 00:00	Vancouver (watching from field at barn)	WA	USA	Fireball	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.	10/27/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/23/1998 18:30	Vancouver	WA	USA	Other	i was out in the smoking area at the local hospital. several hospital employees noticed object in the sky.	10/28/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/28/1998 22:00	Amarillo	TX	USA	Chevron	Chevron, translucent, with 3 or 4 small dim white lights. Rapid, straight line movement across wind.	10/28/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/18/1998 23:54	Portland	OR	USA	Fireball	I was driving over the burnside bridge into downtown Portland, A metallic green fireball very slow in nature. slower than the dozens of	10/28/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/17/1998 01:30	Oxnard/Camarillo (from, freeway)	CA	USA	Flash	We were two driving south to LA on the 101 freeway through Oxnard. Suddenly the sky lit up in green and bluish flashes.	10/28/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 21:50	Roseville	CA	USA	Fireball	small red fireball with long white tail, moving West at a very high speed parallel to the ground	10/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/23/1998 00:00	Chicago (O'hare Airport)	IL	USA	Teardrop	I was on patrol I looked up in the sky at the little dipper & at the bottom left of it inbetween a star to the left bottom was a very b	10/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/25/1998 00:00	Pell City (33.56' 52"N - 86.15' 00" W)	AL	USA	Sphere	Commmercial pilot driving East on I-20, notice object out left window, object is small, bright pulsing white, headed toward ground at a	10/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/28/1998 23:50	Chicago (SW sky over Lake Michigan)	IL	USA	Oval	Lying in bed I noticed a bright ball in the sky that rapidly changed colors from red to blue to white. After realizing that it hadn't	10/29/1998	09/19/2002
Open	10/28/1998 20:35	observer enroute on MN hwy 61 north	MN	USA	Sphere	skies o/cast. Objt. had app. of a meteor but w/ distinct green color. Initially dismissed as meteor	10/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/26/1998 17:58	I-405 North-bound, between 124th and 160th	WA	USA	Fireball	A very bright tourqoise ball with a red tail, close to the ground, seemed to explode or flash out at tree level.	10/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/10/1998 20:30	Spokane (About 30 miles SW of,I-90, maybe MM 254)	WA	USA	Triangle	Dark boomerange object seen for ten minutes hovering over the freeway with a bright light out the front that lit up the fields. No jet	10/29/1998	08/05/2001
Open	10/26/1998 18:15	Seattle	WA	USA	Fireball	FIREBALL CAME STRAIGHT DOWN FROM THE SKY, IT HAD A TAIL GOING STRAIGHT UP LASTED 2 TO 3 SECONDS AND DISAPPEARED.	10/29/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/30/1998 03:30	Kelowna (Canada)	BC	Canada	Fireball	Bright white, spherical object. Approx size = match head held at arm's length. Direction of travel: an ARC, approx. NE to SW. No tail	10/29/1998	12/02/2000
Open	10/29/1998 09:35	Yuba City	CA	USA	Fireball	Large blue/silver sphere with green halo travelled across sky approx 20 deg. arc leaving a white trail. Event lasted 1.0 sec.	10/30/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/30/1998 12:30	Sudbury (south of) (Canada)	ON	Canada	Cone	craft was seen in eastern part of sky ,moving in a southerly direction.It had many different coloured lights and appeared to be spinnin	10/31/1998	12/02/2000
Open	10/26/1998 00:00	Spencer	IA	USA	Fireball	Traveling north on US Highway 71 at approx. 2am on the north edge of Spencer. Saw blueish green fireball traveling west to east. Had r	10/31/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/29/1998 07:00	Missoula	MT	USA	Light	Local TV caught it on their sky cam camera. Showed it on night news. Other reports of 911 being overloaded with calls from police the	10/31/1998	11/01/1998
Open	10/16/1998 00:00	Ronan/Polson (Lake County)	MT	USA	Disk	Two large craft stationery @ 20000 feet above sea level	10/31/1998	11/19/1998
Open	10/31/1998 19:00	Missoula	MT	USA	Changing	I noticed a very dim pin point of what looked like a star go from a pin point to half the size of the moon while its light intensified	10/31/1998	11/19/1998
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Posted	Image