CaseFireball2010

Heathsville, VA, USA

During the fireworks display at 10PM, 4 of us witnessed a red/orange glowing sphere or disc shape moving silently, smoothly and quickly

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-04
Where
Heathsville, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
37.918, -76.472 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-heathsville-va-2010-b22987
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Heathsville, VA.
  • This case is one of 78 Virginia reports filed in 2010.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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