UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Huntsville, AL, USA

During meteor shower, bright amber object, no blinking or other colored lights, entered field of view due west travelling east north ea

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-13
Where
Huntsville, AL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
34.730, -86.586 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-huntsville-al-2017-c588d2
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

  • Huntsville, AL has 81 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 64 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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