CaseFireball2005
Omaha, NE, USA
day-glo fireball
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-27
- Where
- Omaha, NE, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 41.256, -95.940 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-omaha-ne-2005-a2a2ba
Wave
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 172 reports logged in Omaha, NE.
- This case is one of 14 Nebraska reports filed in 2005.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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