CaseFireball2012

St. Stephen, SC, USA

My wife and I were looking in the northeasterly sky when a green fireball fell. One would see it as a meteorite. It was falling strai

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-01-19
Where
St. Stephen, SC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.404, -79.922 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-st-stephen-sc-2012-68c8db
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

  • One of 5 documented reports from St. Stephen, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 186 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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