CaseFireball2005

Clovis, CA, USA

Bright orange fireball traveling from due east to due west. Visible for a second, is all I witnessed.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-11-04
Where
Clovis, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 second
Geo
36.825, -119.703 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-clovis-ca-2005-b43603
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

  • This is one of 47 reports logged in Clovis, CA.
  • This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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