CaseFireball2006

Dalton, GA, USA

Seen a fireball with a tail that changed colors.

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 (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-11-28
Where
Dalton, GA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
approx. 10 seconds
Geo
34.770, -84.970 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dalton-ga-2006-153643
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

  • Dalton, GA shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 77 reports came from Georgia in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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