CaseFireball2007

West Sussex (UK/England), United Kingdom

a small orange glowing ball travelling very high and fast and totally silent. Horsham West Sussex, England

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-12-29
Where
West Sussex (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
51.000, -0.417 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-west-sussex-uk-england-2007-1b75f2
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

  • West Sussex (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 177 reports came from United Kingdom in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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