CaseFireball2012

Antioch, CA, USA

We really do not know what it was we do not drink or do drugs but we know we saw something in the sky

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-04-02
Where
Antioch, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.005, -121.806 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-antioch-ca-2012-bdbd61
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

  • Antioch, CA shows up 70 times across the archive.
  • 758 reports came from California in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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