CaseFireball2012

Long Beach, CA, USA

Long Beach California November 16, 2012, appeared to be 2 large comets or fireballs over ocean.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-11-16
Where
Long Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds?
Geo
33.767, -118.189 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-long-beach-ca-2012-64c7ed
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…

In context

  • One of 142 documented reports from Long Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 758 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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