CaseFireball2016

Irmo, SC, USA

I was driving home around 8:00pm and saw about seven to eight fireballs floating above tree level. They were floating in formation almo

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-11
Where
Irmo, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 mintes
Geo
34.086, -81.183 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-irmo-sc-2016-185dca
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

  • Irmo, SC has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 97 reports from South Carolina.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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