Fort White, FL, USA
large bright (fluorescent) green ball falling at an angle, no tail, sky brightened as it exploded or crashed behind the tree line
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-04
- Where
- Fort White, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 29.923, -82.714 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fort-white-fl-2008-ac2b88
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
- Fort White, FL has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 303 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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