UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Des Moines, WA, USA

my wife saw a huge object in roughly the same location as i did in the past. it was too slow to be a meteor. it happened south of us. t

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-12
Where
Des Moines, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 secs
Geo
47.402, -122.324 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-des-moines-wa-2009-4feff0
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Des Moines, WA.
  • This case is one of 232 Washington reports filed in 2009.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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