CaseFireball2013

Huntsville, AL, USA

Orange fireball in South Huntsville in the eastern sky for about five minutes, no sound.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-27
Where
Huntsville, AL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
34.730, -86.586 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-huntsville-al-2013-b4c726
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

  • Huntsville, AL has 81 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 87 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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