Fireball over Placerville, CA
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The report, as filed
White fireball with green edges heading for the ground.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2000-11-25 → 2000-12-12
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July 29, 2023 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Placerville, CA
I went out to my front yard to water plants at about 9pm. Something caught my eye and I looked up. What I observed was light. It was pulsing on and off, nearly directly overhead, and moving to the SW. It was not a single light but more like a cluster of many different lights and colors. The brightness varies as it pulsed on. Pulsing off it disappears completely. And when it pulsed on there was a very distinct triangle. All 3 edges were very clear as if it must be a solid object. However nothing of the object itself is observed except for the edge. The on and off occurs many times as the lights keep moving at a leisurely pace. The triangle appears several times, but at least one time the triangle was replaced by a rectangle with again only the edges visible. So it seemed the hidden object was capable of changing shape. Just as I thought it was about to move beyond my field of view the lights made a hard left turn moving back to where I had a clear look. There are many large trees where I live so I can only clearly see a limited part of the sky. The lights made a single loop to my east and.then returned to the orginal heading. And was gone from view. I could cover the triangle completely by holding my thumb above my head at arms length. So unless it's a tiny object it's probably pretty high up. No noise at all. And the movement was odd. Hard to describe but it seemed almost that it was sliding not flying. And then to my amazement it returned again. I had originally observed the lights from my front yard. For the 2nd sighting I was on my back deck. As I'm looking basically south it emerges from behind trees to my right. I've grabbed some binoculars and I'm trying to get a better look at it, when it's just gone. But in an instant I realized it's now all the way off to my left. To achieve that new position in a fraction of a second it has to have been nearly instantaneous travel. Trees to my left made viewing difficult. But I don't think it was at that spot for more than a few seconds. The trees made it hard to see exactly when and in what direction it went. Throughout the event the lights kept pulsing, and the intensity varied. And every time it pulsed off it was completely invisible. So at each off pulse I'm wondering where it will reappear having kept moving while invisible.
March 17, 2023 · 9:46 PM · FIREBALL
Placerville, CA
Driving East on Hwy 50 at 9:30-45 at night. About 6 fireballs like comets flying at an even pace towards east south East. Not shooting stars, never faded, just kept going.
January 1, 2022 · 5:58 AM · TEARDROP
Placerville, CA
I was standing in my backyard in the darkness looking towards the west when I observed an oval or teardrop snapped craft traveling parallel to the horizon on a northerly heading at an altitude between 800 and 1200 AGL. It made no sound at all, yet it was less than 3 statute miles away from me with a velocity well over 500 kts. The entire craft was glowing very brightly, mostly orange, with some yellow in the center. The exact shape was not discernible, due to it being completely veiled in the aura-like glow.
May 7, 2021 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Placerville, CA
A single line of lights, first moving from south to north, just above (the big dipper), then the lights re-appeared, this time from west to east. the lights were moving all in a row, no sound, in groups of 2, 4, 5 with spaces between the groups. they were in the sky for only a few minutes, then disappeared, then again in a row west to east direction. I have never seen anything like this before.
March 27, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Placerville, CA
I saw 40 mini bright lights, one after the other coming from west to east,and some of them were flying in pears.It look like they were docking with something. they would get to a certain point and just disappear.They were coming from the direction of Sacramento towards Placerville California. I've seen them before two at a time, But not like this.
June 15, 2019 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Placerville, CA
Woke my girlfriend to show her to confirm. This is the SECOND time in a year I've seen this orb.