UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Macomb, IL, USA

Flaming spherical object flying below cloud cover from east to west in a slow steady horizontal motion.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-06
Where
Macomb, IL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
40.459, -90.672 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-macomb-il-2009-ce2439
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Macomb, IL has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 140 reports from Illinois.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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