UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

Osaka - Itami chome (Japan), Japan

White Fireball Orb - suddenly appears & disappears over Itami, Japan

Report quality: Moderate41/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-15
Where
Osaka - Itami chome (Japan), Japan
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 secs
Geo
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Slug
fireball-over-osaka-itami-chome-japan-2005-190465
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…

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In context

  • Osaka - Itami chome (Japan), Japan shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Japan in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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