UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom

3 red objects that were bright red, 2 were close together with the other following several minutes later

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-11-14
Where
Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
52.639, -1.132 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-leicester-uk-england-2009-0afd4c
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom logged 3 reports in the single month of November 2009.

In context

  • One of 22 documented reports from Leicester (UK/England), United Kingdom in the UFOMYST archive.
  • United Kingdom logged 282 sightings in 2009.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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