CaseFireball2011

Hemet, CA, USA

RED AND ORANGE FIREBALL TURNING TO A CLEAR BRIGHT LIGHT GOING EAST TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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 (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2011-07-24
Where
Hemet, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.748, -116.973 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hemet-ca-2011-15fdfc
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

  • Hemet, CA shows up 41 times across the archive.
  • 624 reports came from California in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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