Turlock, CA, USA
Fireball like object moving slowly down and east then pausing and bouncing then to decrease in mass and to then drop low out of sight.
Report quality: High73/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-05
- Where
- Turlock, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~1 minute
- Geo
- 37.495, -120.847 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-turlock-ca-2014-83ee31
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Turlock, CA reports filed in March 2014.
In context
- Turlock, CA shows up 27 times across the archive.
- 869 reports came from California in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.