CaseFireball2014

Bradenton, FL, USA

Seen 8 to 10 orange fireballs one behind the other in the western sky flying from the north to southwest in Bradenton, FL.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-05-24
Where
Bradenton, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
27.499, -82.575 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bradenton-fl-2014-9deee6
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

  • One of 74 documented reports from Bradenton, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 644 sightings in 2014.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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