CaseFireball2018

Dearing, GA, USA

As before we were outside and noticed one big bright fireball in the sky. It faded out and then another one appeared then dropped down

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-20
Where
Dearing, GA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
8 seconds to hour full ev
Geo
33.413, -82.385 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dearing-ga-2018-b56335
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

  • Dearing, GA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 73 reports from Georgia.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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