McFall, MO, USA
I saw an orange sphere, or fireball, low to the ground at the same time another carrier saw it 100miles away.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-04
- Where
- McFall, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 40.111, -94.223 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-mcfall-mo-2004-c7c19c
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in McFall, MO.
- This case is one of 80 Missouri reports filed in 2004.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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