Los Angeles (Glassel Park), CA, USA
2 Fireballs of light - large and close followed by 2 red lights further in the distance
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-26
- Where
- Los Angeles (Glassel Park), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7-8 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-los-angeles-glassel-park-ca-2006-bf23d4
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…
In context
- Los Angeles (Glassel Park), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 561 reports came from California in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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