UFOMYST
CaseFireball1989

Izmir (Turkey), Turkey

A driver in Izmir, Turkey reported seeing a light emerge between clouds in 1989, stopping the car to watch the fireball for about 20 seconds.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (141 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989
Where
Izmir (Turkey), Turkey
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 Seconds
Geo
38.413, 27.138 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-izmir-turkey-1989-9158dc
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Izmir (Turkey), Turkey in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Turkey logged 2 sightings in 1989.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.8% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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