UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Crystal City, VA, USA

Large Fireball Observed in the Sky close to the Pentagon

Report quality: Moderate40/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-09-17
Where
Crystal City, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
28.677, -99.828 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-crystal-city-va-2017-cf79fe
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Crystal City, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 104 sightings in 2017.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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