CaseFireball1998
Long Key, FL, USA
We saw approx. 12 comet-like objects moving from the SW to the NE. They were in a ununiformed formation, & all had massive comet-like t
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-16
- Where
- Long Key, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 27.711, -82.739 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-long-key-fl-1998-b16887
In context
- Long Key, FL shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 107 reports came from Florida in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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