CaseFireball2020

North Wilmington, DE, USA

7 fireballs moving horizontally very slowly

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-11-28
Where
North Wilmington, DE, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 min
Geo
42.570, -71.156 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-north-wilmington-de-2020-bc538f
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

  • North Wilmington, DE shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 27 reports came from Delaware in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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