Wewahitchka, FL, USA
Bright red "fireball" lasting about a minute then faded out, seconds later a white "shooting star"??? came into the area and then disap
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-09
- Where
- Wewahitchka, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- about a minute
- Geo
- 30.113, -85.200 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wewahitchka-fl-2006-325011
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Wewahitchka, FL.
- This case is one of 219 Florida reports filed in 2006.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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