CaseFireball2009

Harrison Township, MI, USA

07-31-09 23:00 Harrison twp mi fireball 3-5 minutes amber west toeast over Black Creek Bay 08-05-09 ((NUFORC Note: Not ISS. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-31
Where
Harrison Township, MI, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-4 min
Geo
44.019, -84.799 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-harrison-township-mi-2009-b9c8d9
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

  • Harrison Township, MI has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 125 reports from Michigan.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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