CaseFireball2012

Springfield, MO, USA

2 Orange fireballs in the night sky while fire works are going off around it.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-04
Where
Springfield, MO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
37.215, -93.298 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-springfield-mo-2012-91ee18
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Springfield, MO in July 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Springfield, MO has 112 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 177 reports from Missouri.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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