Gainesville, FL, USA
12/21/12 I thought it was a meteor! It was like a ball of fire moving slowly then vanished.anyone else see it? plz answer!
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-21
- Where
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 29.652, -82.325 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-gainesville-fl-2012-1c3df2
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Gainesville, FL reports filed in December 2012.
In context
- Gainesville, FL shows up 71 times across the archive.
- 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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