UFOMYST
CaseFireball1989

Destin, FL, USA

Several red balls of light flying in formation over the gulf of mexico with no sound at high speed.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-07-09
Where
Destin, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
30.394, -86.496 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-destin-fl-1989-4fbf49
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…

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In context

  • Destin, FL has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 16 reports from Florida.
  • The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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