UFOMYST
CaseChanging2017

San Bernardino, CA, USA

Fireball shooting through sky bursting and dividing into two crafts an orb trailing the other. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-22
Where
San Bernardino, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.108, -117.290 · exact
Slug
changing-over-san-bernardino-ca-2017-ca4549
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 San Bernardino, CA reports filed in December 2017.

In context

  • San Bernardino, CA shows up 73 times across the archive.
  • 594 reports came from California in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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