Sapelo Island, GA, USA
A fireball expelling intense gas trail & debris flew for 4 to 5 minutes across coastline of Sapelo Island, Georgia.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-06
- Where
- Sapelo Island, GA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 31.397, -81.279 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sapelo-island-ga-2020-eaabd2
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…
In context
- Sapelo Island, GA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 130 reports from Georgia.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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