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Livermore · CA, USA
Saw a large ball of light traveling West to East in Livermore. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Truckee · CA, USA
Sighted object(s) of two red-orange glowing balls with comet-like glowing tails. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))
Bakersfield · CA, USA
Large orange-red fireball appear in the NW sky and fall to the E of Bakersfield. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Phelan · CA, USA
I seen a strange looking object in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))
Ventura · CA, USA
Fireballs flying over two trees. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))
Tracy · CA, USA
Slow-moving fireball moving E to W in the S sky. Yellowish in color and pulsing as it broke up. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
San Jose · CA, USA
My friend and I saw a fireball moving across the sky. ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: Space debris? PD))
Stockton · CA, USA
Ufo over stockton plane crash? Meteor? Drone? video disappeared on one camera. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Lake Hughes · CA, USA
"Missile test" my ((obscenity deleted)).
Mojave · CA, USA
Huge meteor over Mojave. ((NUFORC Note: Chinese rocket re-entry. PD))
Tracy · CA, USA
Fireball Over Tracy, California. ((NUFORC Note: Reported to be re-entering Chinese rocket shell. PD))
Santa Clarita · CA, USA
Patrons, at a park saw an object resembling a crashing, burning, plane, or rocket, or meteorite. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Palmdale · CA, USA
All 3 were flying across the sky downward, streaking across with what looked like sparks. ((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Sherman Oaks · CA, USA
Like a plane on fire with a long tail of read flames, white flames inside the red tail.((NUFORC Note: Space debris. PD))
Norwalk · CA, USA
Saw a orangish red light in the sky , thought maybe it was a helicopter or airplane that seemed to be coming in my direction , but then
Long Beach · CA, USA
Fireballs in the SoCal night sky.
Laguna Niguel · CA, USA
4 Orange fire orbs in the sky.
Palo Alto · CA, USA
MULTIPLE ORANGE FUZZY LIGHTS IN PALO ALTO.
Placerville · CA, USA
Large, red/orange fireball streaked across sky at aproximately 10:07 PM, in a West to East direction. Event lasted aproximately five se
Long Beach · CA, USA
One orange/red stationary fireball like object in the sky looking south from Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach. ((anonymous rept.))
Bakersfield · CA, USA
My cousin and I were off of hageman and old farm and one by one 3 what looked liked floating balls of fire went from NW to SW dir..
Bass Lake · CA, USA
Large green fireball flashing across the tree line. Did not look like anything I have seem up here before. Went out of view.
Van Nuys · CA, USA
I OBSERVED A ORANGE ORB MOVING ABOVE VNYS AIRPORT.
Whittier · CA, USA
I was in my back yard looking west towards Los Angels and seen red dots gliding and then dissaperring. ((anonymous))