UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

Des Moines, WA, USA

Weird fireball that just diappeared without fanfare and followed up by 4 fighters.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-04-05
Where
Des Moines, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 secs
Geo
47.402, -122.324 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-des-moines-wa-2006-e0ca0a
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

  • Des Moines, WA shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 178 reports came from Washington in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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