CaseFireball2005
Spokane, WA, USA
fireball fizzel out and resparks later from same spot
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-16
- Where
- Spokane, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 sec
- Geo
- 47.660, -117.429 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spokane-wa-2005-e72cc5
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
- One of 235 documented reports from Spokane, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 192 sightings in 2005.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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