CaseFireball2008

Fitzgerald, GA, USA

We both saw a very bright light that drew our attention from what we were doing. The light startled us both.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 6300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-22
Where
Fitzgerald, GA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 min - 1 hr
Geo
31.715, -83.253 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fitzgerald-ga-2008-c7a8c4
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Fitzgerald, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 103 sightings in 2008.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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