UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

McPherson, KS, USA

Took my dogs for a walk at 0500, first step off seen a fast half way falling shooting star.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-14
Where
McPherson, KS, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Second
Geo
38.371, -97.664 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mcpherson-ks-2018-a0daa8
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

  • One of 7 documented reports from McPherson, KS in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Kansas logged 31 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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