CaseFireball2010

Riley, OR, USA

We were traveling from Riley Or. to Bend Or., mile 70 aprox. ,whe this fire balls showed in the middle of the storm, but the most amazi

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-12-09
Where
Riley, OR, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 mins.
Geo
43.542, -119.504 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-riley-or-2010-30829e
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…

In context

  • Riley, OR shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 85 reports came from Oregon in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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