UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Weatherford (2 & a half miles south of), OK, USA

It was a huge ball of fire falling one moment then accelerating upwards the next.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-07
Where
Weatherford (2 & a half miles south of), OK, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
a couple of minutes
Geo
35.526, -98.708 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-weatherford-2-a-half-miles-south-of-ok-1997-5893d2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Weatherford (2 & a half miles south of), OK shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Oklahoma in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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