Armadale (Australia), Australia
There was a light trail in the sky. It was moving at considerable speed and was seen in broad daylight. ((NUFORC Note: Contrail. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2017-04-27
- Where
- Armadale (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- -32.146, 116.009 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-armadale-australia-2017-0f083a
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
- Armadale (Australia), Australia shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Australia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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