Sun Valley, CA, USA
This happened a couple months ago but only decided to report it now, being that maybe some else has seen the same thing. I was driving
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-06-03
- Where
- Sun Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 mintue
- Geo
- 34.218, -118.370 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sun-valley-ca-2011-9dd00a
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
- Sun Valley, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 624 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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