CaseFireball2010
Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
red orange flying blob
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (22 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-04-07
- Where
- Adelaide (South Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- -34.929, 138.599 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-adelaide-south-australia-2010-659803
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Adelaide (South Australia), Australia.
- This case is one of 20 Australia reports filed in 2010.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.