Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Brilliant fireball observed while driving north on Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa, CA. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-11-16
- Where
- Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~10 seconds
- Geo
- 38.440, -122.714 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-santa-rosa-ca-2008-698dd5
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
- Santa Rosa, CA shows up 122 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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