UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Exeter, NH, USA

8 red burning orbs from south to north, below the cloud cover. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sky lanterns??? 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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 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
2018-10-06
Where
Exeter, NH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30-40 minutes
Geo
42.981, -70.948 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-exeter-nh-2018-1f9860
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

  • Exeter, NH has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 37 reports from New Hampshire.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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