France (49.07xx°N, 1.39xx°E), France
A very bright (magnitude equal to that of Venus, i.e. -4.50) orange/yellow ball moving SE-NE in clear sky. Disappeared after 30 secs
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-16
- Where
- France (49.07xx°N, 1.39xx°E), France
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 43.972, -111.275 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-france-49-07xx-n-1-39xx-e-2012-0a8f7d
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in France (49.07xx°N, 1.39xx°E), France.
- This case is one of 5 France reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.