UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Grapevine, TX, USA

Bright Blue flash seen in the N.W. sky.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-03
Where
Grapevine, TX, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
seconds
Geo
32.934, -97.078 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-grapevine-tx-2004-0810d0
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Grapevine, TX shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 203 reports came from Texas in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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