UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Doniphan, MO, USA

2 fireballs fall from sky and light up surroundings

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-01
Where
Doniphan, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 min.
Geo
36.621, -90.823 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-doniphan-mo-1997-0c11f5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Doniphan, MO has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 59 reports from Missouri.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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