Tacoma, WA, USA
ORANGE FIREBALL THAT FELL BACK TO EARTH WAS CARRIED BY A LARGE CLEAR PLASTIC BAG. ((NUFORC Note: Hot-air balloon? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2013-03-10
- Where
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 47.253, -122.444 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-tacoma-wa-2013-6fbb50
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
- Tacoma, WA has 197 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 321 reports from Washington.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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