UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

Bothell, WA, USA

Bright slow light in the sky moving from NW to SW like a satellite but very much brighter July 7th 2010. ((NUFORC Note: ISS. PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2010-07-07
Where
Bothell, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
47.762, -122.205 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bothell-wa-2010-3f71f6
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Bothell, WA in July 2010 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Bothell, WA has 62 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 275 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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