Antioch, CA, USA
appeared too be a very large gigantic bright shooting like star which was fluorescent-white in color with a reddish-orange aura around
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-01
- Where
- Antioch, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 sec
- Geo
- 38.005, -121.806 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-antioch-ca-2009-0c912a
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
- This is one of 70 reports logged in Antioch, CA.
- This case is one of 647 California reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.