CaseFireball2012

San Juan (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico

Two orange fireballs over Metropolitan Area in San Juan, Puerto Rico

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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-29
Where
San Juan (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico
Shape
Fireball
Duration
7-10 minutes
Geo
18.466, -66.106 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-juan-puerto-rico-2012-31f34f
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 23 reports logged in San Juan (Puerto Rico), Puerto Rico.
  • This case is one of 9 Puerto Rico reports filed in 2012.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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