CaseFireball2016

Saltillo, MS, USA

Bright silver/white "streak" with an est. alt. of maybe 1000-1200' above tree line, NE of Saltillo. ((anonymous report))

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-15
Where
Saltillo, MS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
34.376, -88.682 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-saltillo-ms-2016-550d53
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Saltillo, MS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Mississippi logged 32 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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