CaseFireball1969
Middletown, CT, USA
i was 9 or 10 years old and i was slideing down my driveway as i got up from my sled and started to walk back up the driveway a firebal
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-12-23
- Where
- Middletown, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 min.
- Geo
- 41.562, -72.651 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-middletown-ct-1969-c2b5fa
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In context
- One of 34 documented reports from Middletown, CT in the UFOMYST archive.
- Connecticut logged 6 sightings in 1969.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.9%).
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