CaseFireball2014
Amsterdam (Netherlands), Netherlands
Bright orange ball in the sky over Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-10-05
- Where
- Amsterdam (Netherlands), Netherlands
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 52.374, 4.890 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-amsterdam-netherlands-2014-b98c5b
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
- This is one of 8 reports logged in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Netherlands.
- This case is one of 3 Netherlands reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.