CaseFireball2005

Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada

green fireball shoots across the sky westward ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-04-19
Where
Vancouver (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
49.250, -123.119 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-vancouver-canada-bc-2005-782926
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 136 reports logged in Vancouver (Canada), Canada.
  • This case is one of 238 Canada reports filed in 2005.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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