CaseFireball2014

Dunnsville, VA, USA

Bright orange fireballs came from the tree line flying low then veered off to the left and then quickly ascended until it disappeared.

Report quality: High73/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-08-09
Where
Dunnsville, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
37.858, -76.820 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dunnsville-va-2014-7b865a
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

August 2014 was a busy month for Dunnsville, VA: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Dunnsville, VA.
  • This case is one of 184 Virginia reports filed in 2014.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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