UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Wallingford (south of), IA, USA

A ball of blue-white fire rolls on the roadway, and kills my engine.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-09
Where
Wallingford (south of), IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
matter of moments
Geo
43.320, -94.793 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wallingford-south-of-ia-2004-658273
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Wallingford (south of), IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 37 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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