CaseFireball2011
Alamogordo, NM, USA
Fire ball suddenly shoots up right angle and amazing speeds.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-17
- Where
- Alamogordo, NM, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 secs
- Geo
- 32.900, -105.960 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-alamogordo-nm-2011-e392ae
Wave
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
- One of 24 documented reports from Alamogordo, NM in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Mexico logged 35 sightings in 2011.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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