CaseFireball2010

Weaverville, CA, USA

orange ball of light spotted at trinity lake weaverville california. ((NUFORC Note:

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
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-15
Where
Weaverville, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
about an hour
Geo
40.731, -122.942 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-weaverville-ca-2010-ee8e16
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

  • Weaverville, CA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 605 reports came from California in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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