UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Oakland, CA, USA

Brilliant Orange Light Streaks Horizontally Across the Night Sky in Oakland, CA - Sept 16, 2012

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-16
Where
Oakland, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
37.804, -122.271 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-oakland-ca-2012-9ce878
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 84 reports logged in Oakland, CA.
  • This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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