UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Selma, TX, USA

I just seen a light in the sky while looking south. It looked like a star at first till I realized it was bigger and brighter than the

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-27
Where
Selma, TX, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
<1 second
Geo
29.584, -98.306 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-selma-tx-2017-a5cda9
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Selma, TX.
  • This case is one of 127 Texas reports filed in 2017.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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