CaseFireball2010

Kennewick, WA, USA

A fireball, half the size of the sun and covered by a thin cloud, appeared in the eastern sky.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-27
Where
Kennewick, WA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
46.211, -119.137 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kennewick-wa-2010-2c618b
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…

In context

  • One of 69 documented reports from Kennewick, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Washington logged 275 sightings in 2010.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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