Front Royal, VA, USA
Bright fireball\flash of light seen in sky
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-11-09
- Where
- Front Royal, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 38.918, -78.194 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-front-royal-va-2010-f8e056
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Front Royal, VA in November 2010 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Front Royal, VA has 18 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 78 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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