CaseFireball2010

Herculaneum, MO, USA

flaming orange object flying in sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-22
Where
Herculaneum, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 min
Geo
38.268, -90.380 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-herculaneum-mo-2010-4a95f8
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

  • Herculaneum, MO has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 118 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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