UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

McChord AFB/Ft. Lewis, WA, USA

Looked up above my house on jblm, Lewis main. Three balls of red flare light hovered over. The Blackhawks were not flying at all at thi

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-26
Where
McChord AFB/Ft. Lewis, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
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Slug
fireball-over-mcchord-afb-ft-lewis-wa-2016-5c7d6e
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from McChord AFB/Ft. Lewis, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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