UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

Victoria (Canada), BC, Canada

Blue fireball travelling east-west at around 7p.m Pacific time ((NUFORC Note: Probably meteor. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-03-12
Where
Victoria (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
8-10 seconds
Geo
48.436, -123.352 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-victoria-canada-bc-2005-0b3b85
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Victoria (Canada), Canada logged 3 reports in the single month of March 2005.

In context

  • One of 93 documented reports from Victoria (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 238 sightings in 2005.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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