CaseFireball1999
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Long Green tail with a orange fireball moved across the sky from south to north in the eastern sky. Tail disapated orange fireball cont
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-15
- Where
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 to 2 min
- Geo
- 42.008, -91.644 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cedar-rapids-ia-1999-c582ee
In context
- One of 83 documented reports from Cedar Rapids, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 26 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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