CaseFireball2010

Whitchurch (UK/England), United Kingdom

3 bright orange balls moving across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-01-03
Where
Whitchurch (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
51.512, -3.221 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-whitchurch-uk-england-2010-c27f8a
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

  • Whitchurch (UK/England), United Kingdom has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 142 reports from United Kingdom.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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