Acton, CA, USA
Driving north on 14 Freeway, 5 miles south of Escondido Drive, bright clear skies as I was driving north on the side of the mountain I
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-12-05
- Where
- Acton, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 34.470, -118.197 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-acton-ca-2005-3cf6c6
Part of a wave
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
- Acton, CA shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.