UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Athens, GA, USA

Walking my dog when he stop and sniffed the air.. looked up & saw flaming white light in sky.. QUICKLY flew away!

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-30
Where
Athens, GA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.961, -83.378 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-athens-ga-2016-710e93
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Athens, GA has 34 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 123 reports from Georgia.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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