CaseFireball1999
Gila Bend/Yuma (between), AZ, USA
I saw an intense orange ball of fire that was probably a flare, over military airspace
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-15
- Where
- Gila Bend/Yuma (between), AZ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.948, -112.717 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gila-bend-yuma-between-az-1999-8f8e48
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Gila Bend/Yuma (between), AZ.
- This case is one of 96 Arizona reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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