Beirut, Tabariss (Lebanon), Lebanon
As usual every day I was on my way back home from work in a shared taxi service from Hamra to Ashrafieh Beirut, Lebanon (Middle East).
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-12-20
- Where
- Beirut, Tabariss (Lebanon), Lebanon
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.893, 35.502 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-beirut-tabariss-lebanon-2007-8b6114
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
- Beirut, Tabariss (Lebanon), Lebanon shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Lebanon in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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