CaseFireball2005

Kokomo (west side of), IN, USA

From my back yard (taking the dog out) this evening is the 3rd time I have seen these "lights". I've never seen anything like it....ev

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-21
Where
Kokomo (west side of), IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
less than 1 minute
Geo
40.486, -86.134 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kokomo-west-side-of-in-2005-2e675e
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

  • Kokomo (west side of), IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 85 reports came from Indiana in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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