CaseFireball2007

Spring Valley, CA, USA

mysterious stationary red light stationary in Southeast, that slowly started to move, gradually gaining speed then disapering

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2007-07-04
Where
Spring Valley, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 Minutes
Geo
32.745, -116.999 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-spring-valley-ca-2007-35287b
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…

In context

  • Spring Valley, CA has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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