Foresthill, CA, USA
It was large white ball with flames behind it across the sky, west to east.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-18
- Where
- Foresthill, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.020, -120.818 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-foresthill-ca-2017-e79f74
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
- Foresthill, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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