UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

St. George, UT, USA

A/c speed object flying and then turns into a long fireball. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-07-27
Where
St. George, UT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.104, -113.584 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-george-ut-2016-2b59b3
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

4 reports came out of St. George, UT in July 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • St. George, UT has 53 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 92 reports from Utah.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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