UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Mechanicsville, VA, USA

I was facing north, 2 bright amber glowing objects, moving together due W across the sky. ((anonymous report))

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-20
Where
Mechanicsville, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
120 seconds
Geo
37.609, -77.373 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mechanicsville-va-2017-1ef2bc
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

  • Mechanicsville, VA shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 104 reports came from Virginia in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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