CaseFireball1999
Winona, MN, USA
Appeared to be a plane crashing leaving a smoke trail.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Winona, MN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 Min.
- Geo
- 44.050, -91.639 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-winona-mn-1999-bfce8d
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Winona, MN.
- This case is one of 35 Minnesota reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.