UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA

Unusual object dropped from airplane, lit up half of the sky.

Report quality: Moderate57/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-09-15
Where
Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
34.106, -117.593 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-rancho-cucamonga-ca-2004-b85ccf
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 47 documented reports from Rancho Cucamonga, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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