Long Beach, CA, USA
Bright Green Shooting Star? (NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? PD))
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-11-12
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-long-beach-ca-2006-c4f36c
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…
Local cluster
Long Beach, CA logged 5 reports in the single month of November 2006.
In context
- One of 142 documented reports from Long Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 561 sightings in 2006.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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