UFOMYST
CaseFireball2021

Richardson, TX, USA

Large as the setting sun round orange molten sphere moving through the sky

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-08
Where
Richardson, TX, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3:00
Geo
32.948, -96.730 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-richardson-tx-2021-43fa46
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Richardson, TX has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 132 reports from Texas.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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