UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Sioux City, IA, USA

I saw what looked like a fireball in the sky.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-20
Where
Sioux City, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.500, -96.400 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sioux-city-ia-2004-3f2c96
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Sioux City, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 37 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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