CaseFireball2013

Jacksonville, FL, USA

I could not have described what me, my husband and daughter witnessed than the description that was posted by someone in St. Cloud, Flo

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-12-29
Where
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
30.332, -81.656 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-jacksonville-fl-2013-b83ffa
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Jacksonville, FL logged 7 reports in the single month of December 2013.

In context

  • One of 256 documented reports from Jacksonville, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.