CaseFireball2010

St. Catharines (Canada), ON, Canada

Dazzling fireball drifts over St. Catharines

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-05-24
Where
St. Catharines (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
43.171, -79.243 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-catharines-canada-on-2010-47fc11
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

  • St. Catharines (Canada), Canada has 29 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 195 reports from Canada.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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