CaseFireball2009

San Francisco, CA, USA

Two bright orange objects hovering,pulsing lights, akward movements

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-01-11
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 min
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-francisco-ca-2009-24c3a2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

San Francisco, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of January 2009.

In context

  • One of 241 documented reports from San Francisco, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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