UFOMYST
CaseFireball2013

Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

I have seen an orange, slow-moving, smokeless fireball moving through the sky above the University of Alabama.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-03-11
Where
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.210, -87.569 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tuscaloosa-al-2013-b310a1
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…

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In context

  • Tuscaloosa, AL shows up 24 times across the archive.
  • 87 reports came from Alabama in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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