Khost Province (Afghanistan), Afghanistan
While on an op in Afghanistan my battle buddy and I were witness to a bright orange light that flew across the sky and stopped directly
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-05-15
- Where
- Khost Province (Afghanistan), Afghanistan
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-khost-province-afghanistan-2007-494c01
Part of a wave
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Khost Province (Afghanistan), Afghanistan in the UFOMYST archive.
- Afghanistan logged 1 sightings in 2007.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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