CaseFireball1974
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
It was about 1AM-2AM in the morning, while watching TV, a bright object though our window caught my eye. The window was on the north s
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-07-16
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5minutes
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-1974-7095b9
In context
- One of 94 documented reports from Fort Lauderdale, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 14 sightings in 1974.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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