CaseFireball2012

Satellite Beach, FL, USA

ORANGE FIREBALL FLYS LOW AND SILENT OVER BACK YARD WIFE AND 2 SONS WATCHED IT.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-11-24
Where
Satellite Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
28.176, -80.590 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-satellite-beach-fl-2012-c18167
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

  • Satellite Beach, FL has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 459 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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