CaseFireball2013

Hemet, CA, USA

Six red lights, each looked to be a round ring of lights, possibly solid, moving apparently west in the s.e. sky low on the horizon. Th

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-25
Where
Hemet, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 and 1/2 minute
Geo
33.748, -116.973 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-hemet-ca-2013-e09cdf
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 41 reports logged in Hemet, CA.
  • This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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