CaseFireball2004
Ueno City (Japan), Japan
A Bright Shining Object Opposite of the Sun
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-09
- Where
- Ueno City (Japan), Japan
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- fireball-over-ueno-city-japan-2004-ee65be
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
- Ueno City (Japan), Japan shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Japan in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.