CaseFireball2009
Sheffield (UK/England), United Kingdom
((HOAX??)) triangle formation fire ball lights in the sky
Report quality: Low18/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2009-01-01
- Where
- Sheffield (UK/England), United Kingdom
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 53.383, -1.466 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sheffield-uk-england-2009-75936d
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 23 reports logged in Sheffield (UK/England), United Kingdom.
- This case is one of 282 United Kingdom reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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