CaseFireball2020
Belfair, WA, USA
Large orange/red orb moving diagonally and down in the daytime.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-11-18
- Where
- Belfair, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds.
- Geo
- 47.451, -122.827 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-belfair-wa-2020-36df42
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
- Belfair, WA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 371 reports came from Washington in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.