CaseFireball2008
Nunapitchuk, AK, USA
Red fireball looking object passing a village in Alaska.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-01
- Where
- Nunapitchuk, AK, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 Minutes
- Geo
- 60.897, -162.459 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-nunapitchuk-ak-2008-bf2423
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 1 reports logged in Nunapitchuk, AK.
- This case is one of 15 Alaska reports filed in 2008.
- 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.