CaseFireball2011

Imperial, MO, USA

Reddish orange fireball in sky in Imperial MO

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-09
Where
Imperial, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
38.370, -90.378 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-imperial-mo-2011-bb45b1
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

  • One of 15 documented reports from Imperial, MO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Missouri logged 139 sightings in 2011.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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