Kearney, MO, USA
hazy blue huge falling star, no sound, followed by small light disapearing moving S>N and spyplane next.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-16
- Where
- Kearney, MO, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min to 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.368, -94.362 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-kearney-mo-2009-62ad5e
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
- Kearney, MO shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 91 reports came from Missouri in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.