UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Hengelo (The Netherlands), Netherlands

Rotating fireball changes direction and speed, with a rotating arm.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-14
Where
Hengelo (The Netherlands), Netherlands
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes?
Geo
52.266, 6.793 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-hengelo-the-netherlands-2009-77e13d
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…

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In context

  • Hengelo (The Netherlands), Netherlands has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 8 reports from Netherlands.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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