Vacaville, CA, USA
Seen a shooting star or a meteor Fall for about 2-3 sec. It made a trail of what looked like sparks or fire.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-28
- Where
- Vacaville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.357, -121.988 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-vacaville-ca-2017-a8f3c1
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
- Vacaville, CA shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.