UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Hwy. 15 (S)/Hwy. 72 intersection, 1 mi. E of), MS, USA

SAW BRIGHT ORANGE FIREBALL CROSSED SKY LEFT TO RIGHT IN FRONT OF CAR..LOW AND BRIGHT FOR 5 SECONDS LEFT TO RIGHT. EXPLODED TO BRIGHT GR

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-02
Where
Hwy. 15 (S)/Hwy. 72 intersection, 1 mi. E of), MS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 SECONDS
Geo
—
Slug
fireball-over-hwy-15-s-hwy-72-intersection-1-mi-e-of-ms-1997-138567
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Hwy. 15 (S)/Hwy. 72 intersection, 1 mi. E of), MS.
  • This case is one of 6 Mississippi reports filed in 1997.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.