CaseFireball2018

Shelton, WA, USA

The witnesses were both young adults. We were walking to a nearby park at around 1:00 a.m. when we saw a bright green fireball fly acro

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-20
Where
Shelton, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
47.215, -123.101 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-shelton-wa-2018-10d0f0
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 33 documented reports from Shelton, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 172 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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