San Antonio, TX, USA
New Years @ ~12:30am, my father and I observed an object in the sky appearing red at a distance but then turned bright orange.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-01
- Where
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 29.424, -98.494 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-antonio-tx-2017-65b1cd
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 San Antonio, TX reports filed in January 2017.
In context
- San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
- 127 reports came from Texas in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.