CaseFireball2004

Brisbane (QLD, Australia), Australia

UFO sighting Springfield Queensland Australia.As I was having a breath of fresh evening air on the veranda I suddenly turned my hea

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-10-30
Where
Brisbane (QLD, Australia), Australia
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10minutes
Geo
-27.468, 153.028 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-brisbane-qld-australia-2004-4c266e
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

  • Brisbane (QLD, Australia), Australia shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 54 reports came from Australia in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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