UFOMYST
CaseFireball2008

Compton, CA, USA

On the 105 east fwy in Norwalk / Compton area. 1 Bright green ball with a white streak of light. Crash

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-15
Where
Compton, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 Seconds
Geo
33.896, -118.220 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-compton-ca-2008-86d923
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Compton, CA shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 709 reports came from California in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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