CaseFireball1996
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Falling white light made "u" turn and disappeared.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-09-18
- Where
- Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 42.278, -83.741 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ann-arbor-mi-1996-3ec708
In context
- One of 47 documented reports from Ann Arbor, MI in the UFOMYST archive.
- Michigan logged 30 sightings in 1996.
- Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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