CaseFireball2020

Bay City, TX, USA

Was taking a early morning walk when I saw 3 fireballs all traveling together with flames shooting off. (("Starlink" satellites??))

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-07
Where
Bay City, TX, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
28.983, -95.969 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bay-city-tx-2020-c116b4
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…

In context

  • Bay City, TX has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 299 reports from Texas.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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