CaseFireball2009

Terre Haute, IN, USA

I dont know what it was. But it looked like something on fire streaking through the sky. It was just like watching a plane go by but wi

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-05
Where
Terre Haute, IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.467, -87.414 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-terre-haute-in-2009-feef7f
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

  • Terre Haute, IN has 55 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 77 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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