CaseFireball2012

Maple Ridge (Canada), BC, Canada

Very bright orange/red orb with spikes, moving slower than an airliner, seemed to pause, then moved on,

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-09-08
Where
Maple Ridge (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
49.219, -122.602 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-maple-ridge-canada-bc-2012-b6289b
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 14 documented reports from Maple Ridge (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 304 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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