UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Battle Ground, WA, USA

Large fireball type object shot straight downward, made sound.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-09
Where
Battle Ground, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
45.781, -122.533 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-battle-ground-wa-2016-eb8810
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 17 documented reports from Battle Ground, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 229 sightings in 2016.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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