CaseFireball2009

Dundee (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom

Around a dozen bright glowing orange objects following exactly the same path before stopping and fading to nothing, as if moving out in

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-26
Where
Dundee (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 mins
Geo
56.469, -2.975 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dundee-uk-scotland-2009-80d6e9
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

  • Dundee (UK/Scotland), United Kingdom shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 282 reports came from United Kingdom in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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