Orange City, FL, USA
Red/orange fireball crossed the sky from south to north at a level elevation, turned east and then vanished. No noise whatsoever.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-08
- Where
- Orange City, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-4 minutes
- Geo
- 28.949, -81.299 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orange-city-fl-2014-99b563
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 4 reports logged in Orange City, FL.
- This case is one of 644 Florida reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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