CaseFireball2005
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Bright fiery contrail in eastern night sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-10-31
- Where
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 38.029, -78.477 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-charlottesville-va-2005-d81433
Wave
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
- Charlottesville, VA shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 75 reports came from Virginia in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.