UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Marathon, FL, USA

Positively not a flare, meteor,aircraft or satellite.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 330s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-07
Where
Marathon, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 to 6 minutes X 2
Geo
24.714, -81.090 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-marathon-fl-2009-e116fc
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Marathon, FL shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 254 reports came from Florida in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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