CaseFireball1999
Mt. Washington, KY, USA
A large fireball type object appeared to be falling from the sky. As we watched the fireball began tilting upward instead of falling an
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Mt. Washington, KY, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.050, -85.546 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mt-washington-ky-1999-af2967
In context
- Mt. Washington, KY has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 32 reports from Kentucky.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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