◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Fireball over Kodiak
On the night of 8 April 1949 a deputy US marshal, a Navy operations officer, a taxi driver and a base bus driver watched a flaming object cross the US Naval Operating Base at Kodiak, Alaska, and break up over Chiniak Bay. The Navy's report rated its existence probable and made no judgement on its nature; Project Blue Book later filed it as a meteor. This is the record of what four people reported, not a verdict on what crossed the sky.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Fireball over Kodiak is a reported UAP case in United States, 8 April 1949, about 20:30-20:45 local.
- A deputy US marshal said he saw a flaming greenish-blue object plummet across the sky over the Navy base at Kodiak and go out over Chiniak Bay about 15 seconds later.
- The base operations officer described a reddish ball of fire about two feet across that seemed to disintegrate over the bay, and a bus driver said it looked like a large greenish tracer shell.
- Two of the four named witnesses rejected a meteor, one because it was too large and threw no sparks.
- The Navy's report rated the event's existence probable and made no judgement on its nature; Project Blue Book's card later marked it a meteor.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 4 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
8 April 1949, about 20:30-20:45 local
LOCATION
US Naval Operating Base / Naval Air Station Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska (over Chiniak Bay) · United States
COORDS
57.75°N 152.51°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
4
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
