CaseFireball1999
Lakeland, FL, USA
12/28/99 lakeland florida orange ball
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-12-28
- Where
- Lakeland, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 28.039, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lakeland-fl-1999-d8764d
In context
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Lakeland, FL.
- This case is one of 109 Florida reports filed in 1999.
- 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.