CaseFireball2008
Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire (UK/England), USA
Orange fireball over North East Cheshire moving South to North
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-10
- Where
- Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire (UK/England), USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 53.347, -2.215 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-handforth-wilmslow-cheshire-uk-england-2008-018464
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire (UK/England), USA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from USA in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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