CaseFireball1999
Monticello, IA, USA
Happened to catch a very bright and large green fireball streek through the sky in Iowa.
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 (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-13
- Where
- Monticello, IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.238, -91.187 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-monticello-ia-1999-0e9877
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Monticello, IA.
- This case is one of 26 Iowa reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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