CaseFireball2011

Hemet, CO, USA

((HOAX??)) ORANGE AND RED FIREBALL TURNING TO A CLEAR LIGHT THEN TO A BLACK BALL

Report quality: Low17/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2011-07-24
Where
Hemet, CO, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.748, -116.973 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-hemet-co-2011-668691
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 1 reports logged in Hemet, CO.
  • This case is one of 121 Colorado reports filed in 2011.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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