Chula Vista, CA, USA
Fiery ball of flames that was no meteor being fallowed by helicopters.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-17
- Where
- Chula Vista, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 32.640, -117.084 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chula-vista-ca-2016-e31dba
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
- Chula Vista, CA shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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