CaseFireball2007

Indio, CA, USA

Bright object breaks off into three objects and then joins and breaks off again before making an abrupt turn

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-04-27
Where
Indio, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
8 SECONDS
Geo
33.721, -116.217 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-indio-ca-2007-6bb15b
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

  • One of 33 documented reports from Indio, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 587 sightings in 2007.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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