CaseFireball1999
Elberfeld, IN, USA
I was traveling home from work on I164 from Evansville, IN to Oakland City, IN. As I was approaching the I64 crossover, I saw a bright
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- Elberfeld, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-4 min
- Geo
- 38.160, -87.448 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-elberfeld-in-1999-4c30ea
In context
- Elberfeld, IN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from Indiana in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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