CaseFireball2011

Charlotte Amalie (U. S. Virgin Islands), US Virgin Islands

Bright flare up object durring twilight

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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 (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-05
Where
Charlotte Amalie (U. S. Virgin Islands), US Virgin Islands
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
18.342, -64.931 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-charlotte-amalie-u-s-virgin-islands-2011-bccde3
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Charlotte Amalie (U. S. Virgin Islands), US Virgin Islands.
  • This case is one of 1 US Virgin Islands reports filed in 2011.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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