CaseFireball1999
Black Rock City (near Gerlach), NV, USA
Horizon to horizon cluster of slow-miving, fragmenting fireballs with colorful trails
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 135s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-01
- Where
- Black Rock City (near Gerlach), NV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45 sec. - 1.5 min.
- Geo
- 40.769, -119.220 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-black-rock-city-near-gerlach-nv-1999-ba62c9
In context
- Black Rock City (near Gerlach), NV shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from Nevada in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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