CaseFireball2008

Parker, CO, USA

A fireball swooped down over my friends and mines heads (50ft up) and ascended into the horizon opposite the one it came from.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-06-09
Where
Parker, CO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 min
Geo
39.519, -104.761 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-parker-co-2008-ac44ac
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 26 documented reports from Parker, CO in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Colorado logged 99 sightings in 2008.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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