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CaseFireball2018

Sparks, NV, USA

Fireball-like spot traveling SE, ~3 mins, then faded to black...no sound no R or B lights. ((NUFORC Note: ISS??))((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-08-07
Where
Sparks, NV, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
39.535, -119.753 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sparks-nv-2018-5b408e
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • This is one of 38 reports logged in Sparks, NV.
  • This case is one of 58 Nevada reports filed in 2018.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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