CaseFireball2008

Sarasota, FL, USA

left home in sarasota florida about 7pm 1/10/08 saw in northwestern sky a object with long tail(orange, fiery) going northeast very qui

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-10
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 min
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sarasota-fl-2008-361ba2
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 130 documented reports from Sarasota, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 303 sightings in 2008.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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