CaseFireball2014

Williston, VT, USA

Large orange fireball, exceptional speed and low altitude; observed by at least two people. AWESOME!

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-02-23
Where
Williston, VT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Seconds
Geo
44.438, -73.068 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-williston-vt-2014-d5a934
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Williston, VT reports filed in February 2014.

In context

  • Williston, VT shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 37 reports came from Vermont in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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