CaseFireball2008
Wallingford, CT, USA
orand fireball, levitates, descends then disapears
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-04
- Where
- Wallingford, CT, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5minutes
- Geo
- 41.457, -72.823 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wallingford-ct-2008-e65db0
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Wallingford, CT shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 62 reports came from Connecticut in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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