CaseUnknown2009
Carmel, CA, USA
Fireball.
Report quality: Moderate40/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (9 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-19
- Where
- Carmel, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 sec.
- Geo
- 39.978, -86.118 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-carmel-ca-2009-fcac4d
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Carmel, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
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.