UFOMYST
CaseOther2009

Lewes, DE, USA

Small fireball over Delaware coast

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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)
  • Brief witness text (34 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-27
Where
Lewes, DE, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
momentary
Geo
38.775, -75.139 · exact
Slug
other-over-lewes-de-2009-fe3213
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

  • Lewes, DE has 15 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 9 reports from Delaware.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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