CaseFireball2021

Jacksonville, FL, USA

Saw 4 green fireballs falling close together. They were extremely close like the distance an airplane isafter takeoff/before landing. .

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-10-10
Where
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
30.332, -81.656 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-jacksonville-fl-2021-8e1517
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

  • Jacksonville, FL shows up 256 times across the archive.
  • 218 reports came from Florida in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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