UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Saint Augustine, FL, USA

Silent “ball of fire” at low altitude seen in Saint Augustine, FL

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: 78s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-12
Where
Saint Augustine, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
78 seconds
Geo
29.895, -81.315 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-saint-augustine-fl-2018-d4e049
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

  • Saint Augustine, FL shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 226 reports came from Florida in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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