CaseFireball2013

Tequesta, FL, USA

Orange fireball traveling SW to NE at a constant speed and altitude. Stayed visible till it went out of sight in the NE.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-29
Where
Tequesta, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
26.959, -80.088 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tequesta-fl-2013-e916ba
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Tequesta, FL.
  • This case is one of 543 Florida reports filed in 2013.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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