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CaseFireball2015

Chester, SC, USA

Fireball With Long Tail Witnessed by 3 Observers in Chester, SC, at 1AM on June 29, 2015. ((NUFORC Note: Satellite re-entry. 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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 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
2015-06-29
Where
Chester, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20-30 seconds
Geo
34.705, -81.214 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-chester-sc-2015-f1a4ed
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…

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In context

  • Chester, SC shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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