CaseFireball2012

Cambridge (Canada), ON, Canada

Orange fireball SSE sighted in Cambridge, Ontario.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-05
Where
Cambridge (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
43.360, -80.313 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cambridge-canada-on-2012-4ddb73
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

  • Cambridge (Canada), Canada has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 304 reports from Canada.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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