Valley Acres, CA, USA
Bright Egg shaped low flying Fireball over Elk Hills Petroleum Reserve in California. ((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 (85 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-a7bfb7
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
- Valley Acres, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 624 reports came from California in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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