CaseFireball1999
Sterling Heights, MI, USA
Saw five fireball objects flying at a low altitude and steady speed crossing from west toward the northeast.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Sterling Heights, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 12 seconds
- Geo
- 42.580, -83.030 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sterling-heights-mi-1999-19f212
In context
- Sterling Heights, MI shows up 33 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%.
Report
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