San Bernardino, CA, USA
Slow moving fireball
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-21
- Where
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 34.108, -117.290 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-bernardino-ca-2011-5a4def
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of San Bernardino, CA in November 2011 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Bernardino, CA has 73 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 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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