CaseFireball1997

Ponte Vedra, FL, USA

Fast moving yellow cigar shaped fireball over heavily wooded area.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Ponte Vedra, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
30.227, -81.380 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ponte-vedra-fl-1997-b5a7c1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Ponte Vedra, FL.
  • This case is one of 51 Florida reports filed in 1997.
  • Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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