UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

DeFuniak Springs, FL, USA

South toward the the Gulf of Mexico a comet like object traveling east to west, vertically with a very large tail, lighting up the sky.

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-07
Where
DeFuniak Springs, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
25 seconds
Geo
30.721, -86.115 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-defuniak-springs-fl-2021-38d109
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in DeFuniak Springs, FL.
  • This case is one of 218 Florida reports filed in 2021.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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