CaseFireball2011
Kent, WA, USA
Large fireball streaking across the sky over Highway 167 in Kent WA.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-15
- Where
- Kent, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 47.381, -122.235 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kent-wa-2011-ceb528
Wave
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
- This is one of 74 reports logged in Kent, WA.
- This case is one of 304 Washington reports filed in 2011.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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