CaseTeardrop2008

Toronto (Canada), ON, Canada

Fireball seen falling near Don Mills and Eglinton

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-09-18
Where
Toronto (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3-7 seconds
Geo
43.706, -79.399 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-toronto-canada-on-2008-daa126
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

  • Toronto (Canada), Canada has 250 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 153 reports from Canada.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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