UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Horseshoe Springs, UT, USA

ME AND MY TWO FRIENDS WERE OUT BY THE DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS,AND WAS WATCHING THE SKYS AND SAW NOTHING, SO WE STARTED ON OUR DRIVE HOME

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-07
Where
Horseshoe Springs, UT, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 MINS
Geo
33.637, -83.942 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-horseshoe-springs-ut-2009-2b61cc
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Horseshoe Springs, UT in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Utah logged 36 sightings in 2009.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

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