CaseFireball2013

Bay Saint Louis, MS, USA

Orange pulsating orb over downtown.

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-29
Where
Bay Saint Louis, MS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
30.309, -89.330 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bay-saint-louis-ms-2013-9ed9f6
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

  • Bay Saint Louis, MS shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 39 reports came from Mississippi in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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