CaseFireball2009

Gold Coast (Australia), Australia

2 UFO's sighted abover chevron island Goldcoast Queensland Australia 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-22
Where
Gold Coast (Australia), Australia
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
-28.000, 153.431 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-gold-coast-australia-2009-5acfc8
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

  • One of 9 documented reports from Gold Coast (Australia), Australia in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Australia logged 19 sightings in 2009.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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