CaseFireball2018
Fairfield, CA, USA
Strange fireball object in night sky.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-09-09
- Where
- Fairfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes +
- Geo
- 38.249, -122.040 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-fairfield-ca-2018-eb5c20
Wave
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
- Fairfield, CA shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 331 reports came from California in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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