CaseFireball2005

Starks, LA, USA

fireballs intersecting

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-15
Where
Starks, LA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-7 seconds
Geo
30.315, -93.662 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-starks-la-2005-5f76a3
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

  • Starks, LA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 30 reports came from Louisiana in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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