CaseFireball1955
Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Three fireballs moved slowly along the beach, then suddenly accelerated and flew straight up into the night sky and disappeared.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1955-06-15
- Where
- Daytona Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 29.211, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-daytona-beach-fl-1955-99b585
In context
- Daytona Beach, FL shows up 50 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Florida in 1955.
- In the 1950s, 3.9% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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