CaseFireball1999
Norwalk (sml town just sw of Des Moines), IA, USA
this was a blue-green fireball seen by myself, my husband and our young son. it was moving from the south to the northeast. my husban
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Norwalk (sml town just sw of Des Moines), IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 6-8 seconds
- Geo
- 41.476, -93.679 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-norwalk-sml-town-just-sw-of-des-moines-ia-1999-6cb60d
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In context
- Norwalk (sml town just sw of Des Moines), IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Iowa in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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