Austin, AR, USA
The meteorite flashed brightly, then streaked across the sky for 2-3 seconds before going dark.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-11
- Where
- Austin, AR, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 34.998, -91.984 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-ar-2005-6e91d7
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Austin, AR.
- This case is one of 37 Arkansas reports filed in 2005.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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