CaseFireball2018

Marysville, CA, USA

I witnessed either an extremely large or close, unidentified fireball "falling" to earth SSE-east of E. Marysville.((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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  • Duration parsed: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-02
Where
Marysville, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
39.146, -121.591 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-marysville-ca-2018-015a52
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 18 documented reports from Marysville, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 331 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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