CaseFireball2006

Northern Territory (Canada), NT, Canada

As I looked outside to do a weather observation prior to my hourly report,I saw this brilliant light I thought at first was a star,but

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-12-21
Where
Northern Territory (Canada), NT, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 secs.
Geo
Slug
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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

  • Northern Territory (Canada), Canada has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2006 brought 188 reports from Canada.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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