Willits, CA, USA
bright fireball changing and flashing colors red to white to yellow to orange hovering for 30 minutes and then vanishing
Report quality: Moderate67/100
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 (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-21
- Where
- Willits, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 00:30
- Geo
- 39.410, -123.356 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-willits-ca-2004-136b05
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Willits, CA in January 2004 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Willits, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
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.