CaseFireball1999

Brighton (outside of), IA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Brighton (outside of), IA, USA
Start: 1999-09-04
Location: Brighton (outside of), IA, USA

camping, object zig-zagged, stopped off and on, went behind a large cloud bank and was so bright it lit through the cloud, weird hard t

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-09-04
Where: Brighton (outside of), IA, USA
Shape: Fireball
Duration: 30minutes
Geo: 41.175, -91.820 · exact
Slug: fireball-over-brighton-outside-of-ia-1999-1f01b8

In context

This is one of 1 reports logged in Brighton (outside of), IA.
This case is one of 26 Iowa reports filed in 1999.
Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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