CaseFireball1960
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
In 1960, a witness near Cape Canaveral, Florida, reported a huge ball of light zooming down from the sky before disappearing, during a sighting that lasted about four hours.
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-06-06
- Where
- Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- 28.406, -80.605 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cape-canaveral-fl-1960-299a96
In context
- Cape Canaveral, FL has 21 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 1 reports from Florida.
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.