CaseFireball2009
Maguiresbridge (Ireland), Ireland
LARGE GLOWING ORANGE ORB
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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
- Brief witness text (24 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-18
- Where
- Maguiresbridge (Ireland), Ireland
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 54.300, -7.467 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-maguiresbridge-ireland-2009-590c47
Wave
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
- Maguiresbridge (Ireland), Ireland has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 12 reports from Ireland.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure 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.