CaseFireball2009

Winston (near), NM, USA

Meteor or Fireball between Cuchillo and Winston NM March 28 2009 about 9:30 PM very light and very big.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-03-28
Where
Winston (near), NM, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
33.347, -107.647 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-winston-near-nm-2009-da7ff0
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

  • Winston (near), NM shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from New Mexico in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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