UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

Columbus, NE, USA

I took my son to the store about 9:00 pm on the evening of July 4th, 2010. We left the store around 10:15 pm. My store receipt reads t

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-04
Where
Columbus, NE, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
41.430, -97.368 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-columbus-ne-2010-37f2b2
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…

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Columbus, NE in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Nebraska logged 38 sightings in 2010.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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