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

  • 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

  • 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

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