CaseFireball2011

Valley acres, CA, USA

on 4/14/2011 at approximately 2125 pm me and a co worker were driving SW on highway 119 ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

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.

  • Duration parsed: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-04-14
Where
Valley acres, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
35.206, -119.407 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-valley-acres-ca-2011-38f35b
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Valley acres, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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