CaseFireball1980
Mountainboro, AL, USA
Ball of Fire that changed into a cone shape.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-10-01
- Where
- Mountainboro, AL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 34.147, -86.131 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mountainboro-al-1980-6c4b88
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Mountainboro, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 5 sightings in 1980.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.8% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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