CaseFireball2007

Los Angeles, CA, USA

We saw 2 firey orange orbs, like 2 small suns near each other, west of the Los Angeles skyline for 5-9 seconds at 1:22 in the afternoon

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-08-05
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-9 SECONDS
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-los-angeles-ca-2007-9d19d6
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Los Angeles, CA in August 2007 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
  • 2007 brought 587 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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