CaseFireball2008

Bremerton, WA, USA

These were not man made objects!!!

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-12-25
Where
Bremerton, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10seconds
Geo
47.567, -122.633 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bremerton-wa-2008-e8f883
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

December 2008 was a busy month for Bremerton, WA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 108 reports logged in Bremerton, WA.
  • This case is one of 200 Washington reports filed in 2008.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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