UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Memphis, TN, USA

Bright glowing green sphere that vanishes, very close and very big. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-28
Where
Memphis, TN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 second
Geo
35.150, -90.049 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-memphis-tn-2009-44ba41
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

  • One of 126 documented reports from Memphis, TN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Tennessee logged 72 sightings in 2009.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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