CaseFireball2019

Surprise, AZ, USA

Floating flickering fire. Traveling slowly then disappears.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-20
Where
Surprise, AZ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
33.631, -112.333 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-surprise-az-2019-b503d1
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

  • Surprise, AZ has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 231 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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