UFOMYST
CaseFireball2019

Blacksburg, VA, USA

Orange ball descending from the sky

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-05-11
Where
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
37.230, -80.414 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-blacksburg-va-2019-432ed7
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

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Blacksburg, VA.
  • This case is one of 194 Virginia reports filed in 2019.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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