UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

St. Augustine, FL, USA

A fire ball shot across the sky and disapeard in thin air,

Report quality: High74/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-04-19
Where
St. Augustine, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 min.
Geo
29.895, -81.315 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-augustine-fl-2008-e46f23
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of St. Augustine, FL in April 2008 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • St. Augustine, FL has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 303 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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