CaseFireball1939
Waterloo, AL, USA
Four high school students in Waterloo, Alabama reported a bright, ground-level, slow-moving fireball, observed for about five minutes in the late 1930s.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (152 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1939-06-01
- Where
- Waterloo, AL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.918, -88.064 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-waterloo-al-1939-5e30f6
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In context
- Waterloo, AL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1939 brought 1 reports from Alabama.
- The 1930s skewed 11.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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