UFOMYST
CaseFireball2014

Needles, CA, USA

Unknown falling object in Needles, CA.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-11-06
Where
Needles, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
34.848, -114.614 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-needles-ca-2014-a9b4a1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in Needles, CA.
  • This case is one of 869 California reports filed in 2014.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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