CaseFireball2007

Tooele, UT, USA

Very high, very fast, and in a unique shape.

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-08-07
Where
Tooele, UT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 -7 seconds
Geo
40.531, -112.298 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tooele-ut-2007-6d5985
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

  • Tooele, UT shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 36 reports came from Utah in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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