CaseFireball2016

Hurricane, WV, USA

Witnessed a round, red flashing light in the sky directly in front of me. It was about the height of where an airplane would be flyin

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-06
Where
Hurricane, WV, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.433, -82.020 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hurricane-wv-2016-cd9c5a
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

  • Hurricane, WV shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 31 reports came from West Virginia in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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