UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Redding, CA, USA

Green fireball outlives its tail! ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))

Report quality: Low38/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-08-30
Where
Redding, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
40.587, -122.392 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-redding-ca-2018-12b05c
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

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In context

  • One of 103 documented reports from Redding, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 331 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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