CaseFireball1999
Bentonville, IN, USA
It was an orange ball hovering over (to our vantage point) a grain elevator. After a short time, it just vanished. The next night, th
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-16
- Where
- Bentonville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30-60 sec.
- Geo
- 39.745, -85.194 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bentonville-in-1999-4b36c8
In context
- Bentonville, IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from Indiana in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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