CaseFireball2017
Coolridge, WV, USA
2 fireballs changing direction.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-13
- Where
- Coolridge, WV, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.658, -81.096 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-coolridge-wv-2017-22a034
Wave
Part of a wave
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 1 documented reports from Coolridge, WV in the UFOMYST archive.
- West Virginia logged 23 sightings in 2017.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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