Merritt (Canada), BC, Canada
the bright round object, with a short tail, stopped in its flight towards earth, turning sideways the silver disc then travelled east
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-03
- Where
- Merritt (Canada), BC, Canada
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 mins appox.
- Geo
- 50.112, -120.794 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-merritt-canada-bc-2004-e31c35
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Merritt (Canada), Canada.
- This case is one of 362 Canada reports filed in 2004.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.