CaseFireball2012

Kitchener (Canada), ON, Canada

Light over Kitchener Ontario July 18 midnight

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 (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-18
Where
Kitchener (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
0:03
Geo
43.425, -80.511 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-kitchener-canada-on-2012-a2b00a
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

  • Kitchener (Canada), Canada shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 304 reports came from Canada in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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