CaseFireball1998
Port Charlotte, FL, USA
I am a newspaper reporter. A resident came to me 11/19 and said he filmed a "ball of fire" traveling slowly at high altitude toward hor
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-17
- Where
- Port Charlotte, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- two minutes
- Geo
- 26.976, -82.091 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-port-charlotte-fl-1998-eb0d66
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In context
- Port Charlotte, FL shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 107 reports came from Florida in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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