UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt

((NUFORC Note: Probable hoax. PD))The ships were color changing and a man with a tail and bluue fur took my cat and painted him..

Report quality: Low1/100

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: 86400s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-09-11
Where
Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt
Shape
Fireball
Duration
24 hours
Geo
31.202, 29.916 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-alexandria-egypt-2004-d3831f
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Egypt logged 2 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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