Santa Ana, CA, USA
Very large falling & blue-white flaming ball falling into earth. So low it looked as if it was going to strike the ground. Huge & fast.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-02-27
- Where
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 sec
- Geo
- 33.746, -117.868 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-ana-ca-2021-1eaedf
Part of a wave
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 61 reports logged in Santa Ana, CA.
- This case is one of 330 California reports filed in 2021.
- Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.