CaseFireball1999

South Lyon, MI, USA

On 16-Nov-99 at about 7:12 PM EST I witnessed a dramatic fireball in the sky over South Lyon, Michigan, a small town just to the North

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 105s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1999-11-16
Where
South Lyon, MI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
90 to 120 seconds
Geo
42.461, -83.652 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-south-lyon-mi-1999-c29d7a

In context

  • South Lyon, MI shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 91 reports came from Michigan in 1999.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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