CaseFireball2009

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Tanzania

As usual I was standing in my balcony on 4th floor from where I see huge area of sky till Indian ocean and suddenly my eyes caught atte

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-09
Where
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Tanzania
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-4 secs
Geo
-6.823, 39.270 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dar-es-salaam-tanzania-2009-02de00
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…

In context

  • Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Tanzania has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 1 reports from Tanzania.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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