CaseFireball2019

Texas (southern), TX, USA

Heading S to N at 7:30 pm, was a orange obj. ~5k feet in the air. It was a orange fire ball. Not an a/c. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-01-01
Where
Texas (southern), TX, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Geo
29.384, -94.903 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-texas-southern-tx-2019-e5413d
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

  • Texas (southern), TX shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 239 reports came from Texas in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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