CaseFireball2009

Douglass, KS, USA

Red light over horizon, Southwest, viewed outside of Douglass, Kansas, early morning, before sunrise

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-06-06
Where
Douglass, KS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 min
Geo
37.519, -97.013 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-douglass-ks-2009-c62c5d
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…

In context

  • Douglass, KS has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 44 reports from Kansas.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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