CaseFireball2011

San Francisco, CA, USA

Set of Orange Lights in the sky in San Francisco

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-01-26
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-francisco-ca-2011-52cca7
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 241 reports logged in San Francisco, CA.
  • This case is one of 624 California 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

Report

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