CaseFireball1999
Appleton, WI, USA
While stepping outside to take out the trash, I saw a large yellow-green fireball traveling west to east about 30 degrees above the hor
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Appleton, WI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- 44.262, -88.415 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-appleton-wi-1999-19a5ca
In context
- Appleton, WI shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 80 reports came from Wisconsin in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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