CaseFireball2016
San Antonio, TX, USA
A Beautiful Rock full of different colors in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate52/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-21
- Where
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Evening
- Geo
- 29.424, -98.494 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-antonio-tx-2016-adae0b
Wave
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 268 reports logged in San Antonio, TX.
- This case is one of 159 Texas reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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