Big Bear Lake, CA, USA
Long stretch of consecutive lights at very high alt. crossed over the ski area. ((NUFORC Note: Cluster of "Starlink" satellites. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-11-11
- Where
- Big Bear Lake, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 34.244, -116.911 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-big-bear-lake-ca-2019-2bdc6c
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
- Big Bear Lake, CA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 510 reports came from California in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
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