CaseFireball2020

Lone Pine, CA, USA

Alabama Hills, CA. We went to take photos of the four meteor showers. Around 1:08am. I noticed what at first I thought was a meteor act

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: 19s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-27
Where
Lone Pine, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
19 sec
Geo
36.606, -118.065 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lone-pine-ca-2020-521388
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

  • Lone Pine, CA shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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