UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Ipoh (Malaysia), Malaysia

Fireball near moon

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-20
Where
Ipoh (Malaysia), Malaysia
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Snapshot
Geo
4.584, 101.083 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ipoh-malaysia-2008-6abaa5
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

  • Ipoh (Malaysia), Malaysia shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Malaysia in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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