CaseFireball2020
New Haven, MI, USA
Fiery porthole.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (15 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-29
- Where
- New Haven, MI, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 43.094, -84.153 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-new-haven-mi-2020-218460
Wave
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 2 reports logged in New Haven, MI.
- This case is one of 179 Michigan reports filed in 2020.
- Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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