CaseFireball2006

Tel Aviv (Israel), Israel

Orange orb in clear sky, moved in strait line and stopped

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-02-07
Where
Tel Aviv (Israel), Israel
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
32.081, 34.781 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tel-aviv-israel-2006-8a686f
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

  • Tel Aviv (Israel), Israel shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Israel in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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