CaseFireball1996
Anamosa/Cedar Rapids (between), IA, USA
I was delivering a pizza to a house out of town. I was returning towards a gravel rode from a suburb. I came to the end of the drive
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-01
- Where
- Anamosa/Cedar Rapids (between), IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.108, -91.285 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-anamosa-cedar-rapids-between-ia-1996-3ebf6b
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Anamosa/Cedar Rapids (between), IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 4 sightings in 1996.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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