UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Escondido, CA, USA

Fireball at high speed, suddenly stopped, stayed in place for a few seconds, went straight up, blinked, brightened, then disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-21
Where
Escondido, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.119, -117.086 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-escondido-ca-2018-efdfcd
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

  • One of 79 documented reports from Escondido, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 331 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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