CaseFireball1999
South Lyon, MI, USA
On 16-Nov-99 at about 7:12 PM EST I witnessed a dramatic fireball in the sky over South Lyon, Michigan, a small town just to the North
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 105s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-16
- Where
- South Lyon, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 to 120 seconds
- Geo
- 42.461, -83.652 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-south-lyon-mi-1999-c29d7a
In context
- South Lyon, MI shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 91 reports came from Michigan in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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