CaseFireball1999
South Shields (UK/England), United Kingdom
Unnoticed fireball travelling towards ground then dissapears behind building never to be seen or mentioned
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-24
- Where
- South Shields (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 54.999, -1.432 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-south-shields-uk-england-1999-59398f
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in South Shields (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 71 United Kingdom reports filed in 1999.
- Fireball craft made up 6.8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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