CaseFireball1998
Pensacola Beach, FL, USA
Perfectly round flame colored object growing larger and then vanishing within an instant.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-17
- Where
- Pensacola Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- approx 2 min.
- Geo
- 30.334, -87.137 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pensacola-beach-fl-1998-289615
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Pensacola Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 107 sightings in 1998.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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