CaseFireball1979
LaVista, NE, USA
I was in 7th or 8th grade at the time, Myself and 2 friends were walking together to school, for early morning basketball practice at a
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979
- Where
- LaVista, NE, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 sec
- Geo
- 41.184, -96.031 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lavista-ne-1979-975f85
In context
- LaVista, NE has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1979 brought 4 reports from Nebraska.
- The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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