CaseFireball2013

Sydney (Canada), NS, Canada

Driving on grand lake road, noticed a large orange/green glow ripping across the sky with a lit up tail before disappearing, over grand

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-03-17
Where
Sydney (Canada), NS, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
46.135, -60.183 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sydney-canada-ns-2013-c6f89b
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

  • Sydney (Canada), Canada has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 356 reports from Canada.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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