CaseFireball1991

Canyon, TX, USA

((HOAX??)) I have not been compelled to report this incident until a few days ago to the MUFON website. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
1991-09-15
Where
Canyon, TX, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
34.980, -101.919 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-canyon-tx-1991-268eec
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • One of 5 documented reports from Canyon, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 17 sightings in 1991.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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