CaseFireball2007
Spring Valley, CA, USA
Fireball that looked like a flare in sky that shoots upward.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-04-04
- Where
- Spring Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5:00
- Geo
- 32.745, -116.999 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-spring-valley-ca-2007-9a9855
Wave
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
- Spring Valley, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 587 reports came from California in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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