Yorba Linda, CA, USA
Fireball falling to earth, stops mid fall, hovers and then engages in horizontal movement, disappearing and then reappearing.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-26
- Where
- Yorba Linda, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.889, -117.813 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-yorba-linda-ca-2008-add32f
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 Yorba Linda, CA reports filed in January 2008.
In context
- Yorba Linda, CA shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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