CaseFireball2012

Watson, LA, USA

Traveling east on 1019 two orange fireball shapes went slow across road , going upward Then 3rd one traveling same direction beginning

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-25
Where
Watson, LA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1.30
Geo
30.576, -90.953 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-watson-la-2012-76bec0
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

  • Watson, LA shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 48 reports came from Louisiana in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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