UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Fredericksburg, VA, USA

Entering highway 95 headed toward DC, I saw a extra large ball of fire streak across the sky and it was so fast... I have seen shootin

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-10-04
Where
Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
38.303, -77.461 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fredericksburg-va-2011-341d72
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…

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In context

  • Fredericksburg, VA shows up 55 times across the archive.
  • 100 reports came from Virginia in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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