CaseFireball1996
Lacoochee, FL, USA
huge fireball approx. 30 mile fire trail, traveling upward at a speed approx. 10,000 miles p.h.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-04-15
- Where
- Lacoochee, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 28.466, -82.172 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lacoochee-fl-1996-33cec4
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Lacoochee, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 50 sightings in 1996.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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