CaseFireball1999
Dearborn Heights, MI, USA
I was talking to my son when I saw (to his back) what I thought was an airplane on fire, crashing ( we live aprox. 3mi. North, East of
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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Dearborn Heights, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 - 12 seconds
- Geo
- 42.337, -83.273 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-dearborn-heights-mi-1999-9c2db8
In context
- Dearborn Heights, MI has 13 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 91 reports from Michigan.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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