CaseFireball1985
Malden, MO, USA
Big Orange Ball sitting in field behind house
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-02-15
- Where
- Malden, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 45 sec.
- Geo
- 36.557, -89.966 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-malden-mo-1985-27c044
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Malden, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
- Missouri logged 8 sightings in 1985.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.8% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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