Sutherlin, CA, USA
I was driving home from work tonight going N and it was very dark and there was light fog. On the right side of the freeway.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-13
- Where
- Sutherlin, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- Fireball in sky
- Geo
- 43.390, -123.313 · fallback
- Slug
- fireball-over-sutherlin-ca-2016-cc2ca6
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…
In context
- Sutherlin, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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