Riverview, FL, USA
Fireball with noticeable tail moving through sky, stops leaving just a dot then disappears.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-07
- Where
- Riverview, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 27.866, -82.326 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-riverview-fl-2020-c5aa1d
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
- One of 22 documented reports from Riverview, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 403 sightings in 2020.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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