CaseFireball1999

Berkley, MA, USA

pale orange color fireball type object with long tail seen heading due east looking at northern part of sky, disappeared behind thin cl

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1999-04-22
Where
Berkley, MA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
41.846, -71.083 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-berkley-ma-1999-90b823

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Berkley, MA.
  • This case is one of 31 Massachusetts reports filed in 1999.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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