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

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.