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CaseFireball2006

Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA, USA

1 RED FIREBALL OBJECT GOING SOUTH ALONG THE COAST OF LONG BEACH AT A FAST SPEED, AT 06:15 AM. THEN I SAW TWO FIGTHER JETS 15 MIN LATER,

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-12-03
Where
Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
—
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-los-angeles-long-beach-ca-2006-60e3b3
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

  • Los Angeles/Long Beach, 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 days

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