UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Ocala, FL, USA

Midnight White Oval / Fireball UFO

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-17
Where
Ocala, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
29.187, -82.140 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ocala-fl-1997-cb58c1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Ocala, FL has 79 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 51 reports from Florida.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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