UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Gautier, MS, USA

an orange fireball in the sky then 2 oblong forms with orange rotating lights, within a 10 minute time frame

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-22
Where
Gautier, MS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
30.386, -88.612 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-gautier-ms-2009-a889de
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

  • Gautier, MS shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Mississippi in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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