Dunnellon, FL, USA
At first I thought it was a meteor but then changed color then disappeared. Flew straight across left a trail of different colors then
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-20
- Where
- Dunnellon, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 29.049, -82.461 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-dunnellon-fl-2019-6e4c2b
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
- Dunnellon, FL shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 413 reports came from Florida in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% 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.