CaseFireball1998
Pensacola, FL, USA
illuminating firey red ball that slowly sunk over the bay between Pensacola and Gulf Breeze
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-11
- Where
- Pensacola, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 30.421, -87.217 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-pensacola-fl-1998-1f86bc
In context
- Pensacola, FL shows up 91 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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