CaseFireball2013

Tyndall AFB, FL, USA

Bright steady paced light that began to have a dripping effect towards end of sighting.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-24
Where
Tyndall AFB, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
30.085, -85.607 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-tyndall-afb-fl-2013-96762a
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

  • Tyndall AFB, FL has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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