UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Mahwah, NJ, USA

Green fireball heading towards the earth

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-21
Where
Mahwah, NJ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
41.089, -74.144 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mahwah-nj-2009-59dcdd
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…

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In context

  • Mahwah, NJ shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 119 reports came from New Jersey in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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