CaseFireball2007

Rowesville, SC, USA

FIREBALL TRAVELING NE TO SW .ORANGE WITH RED AND GREEN AND GREY SMOKE TRAIL. ((NUFORC Note: Meteor? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2007-01-08
Where
Rowesville, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 SEC
Geo
33.370, -80.837 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rowesville-sc-2007-61c7b4
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…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Rowesville, SC.
  • This case is one of 78 South Carolina reports filed in 2007.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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