UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Kannapolis, NC, USA

large white flame in the Southern Sky

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 (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-15
Where
Kannapolis, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
seconds
Geo
35.487, -80.622 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kannapolis-nc-2009-2db47f
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

  • Kannapolis, NC has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 125 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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