CaseFireball1999
Margate, FL, USA
Looked like a meteor but it was bright orange w/a long tail. It didn't fizzle out though. Traveled from west to east following the hori
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-04
- Where
- Margate, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 sec.
- Geo
- 26.245, -80.206 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-margate-fl-1999-b78653
In context
- One of 12 documented reports from Margate, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 109 sightings in 1999.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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