UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Fireball or (meteor?) Might be something stranger. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-08
Where
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
42.008, -91.644 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2009-6f551a
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 →

In context

  • One of 83 documented reports from Cedar Rapids, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 42 sightings in 2009.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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