CaseFireball2018

Marina del Rey, CA, USA

Fireball at ocean horizon.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-10-10
Where
Marina del Rey, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
120 minutes
Geo
33.982, -118.454 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-marina-del-rey-ca-2018-0625d3
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

  • Marina del Rey, CA has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 331 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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