CaseFireball2008

Monterey Park, CA, USA

Bright red light seen in the evening sky over Monterey Park, CA

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-31
Where
Monterey Park, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Geo
34.063, -118.123 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-monterey-park-ca-2008-8f1970
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

  • Monterey Park, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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