UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia

Orange ball of light with no tail traveled from North East to South West and disappeared.There was no visable trail on the orange b

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-13
Where
Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia
Shape
Fireball
Duration
7min
Geo
-33.868, 151.207 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sydney-nsw-australia-2005-1fb528
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

  • Sydney (NSW, Australia), Australia shows up 46 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from Australia in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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