Ben Lomond, CA, USA
Bright light that pulsed from orange to red, before fading away and "disappearing" into the darkness.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-14
- Where
- Ben Lomond, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 37.089, -122.086 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ben-lomond-ca-2012-f0a9a3
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 3 reports logged in Ben Lomond, CA.
- This case is one of 758 California reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s 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.