CaseFireball2013

Pratt, KS, USA

Quick flash of light. lit up the sky, i turned around and seen the fireball falling. about five minutes later i heard what sounded

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-11-16
Where
Pratt, KS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
37.644, -98.738 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-pratt-ks-2013-a85d3a
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

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Pratt, KS.
  • This case is one of 55 Kansas reports filed in 2013.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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