UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Valley, AL, USA

It appeared to be a meteorite and it fizzled out before it landed.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-24
Where
Valley, AL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
00:08
Geo
32.819, -85.179 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-valley-al-2008-f2378d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Valley, AL has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 51 reports from Alabama.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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