CaseFireball1999
Moab, UT, USA
I saw it through the ceiling of my tent. It was brighter than anything in the sky. It was probably a large meteor or fireball as it i
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-17
- Where
- Moab, UT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- :05
- Geo
- 38.573, -109.550 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-moab-ut-1999-4529ec
In context
- Moab, UT shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 32 reports came from Utah in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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