CaseFireball1999
Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge (Kennedy Space Center), Flori, FL, USA
While camping out overnight on the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge, at around 2:30 a.m. 8-17-99 I witnessed what appeared to be a large
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-17
- Where
- Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge (Kennedy Space Center), Flori, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30-45 sec.
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-merritt-island-wildlife-refuge-kennedy-space-center-flori-fl-1999-491b0e
In context
- Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge (Kennedy Space Center), Flori, FL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 109 reports from Florida.
- The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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