Morongo Valley, CA, USA
Fireball, then lights or flame went out and there was 3 red dots, with blue lights in middle.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-16
- Where
- Morongo Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 34.047, -116.581 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-morongo-valley-ca-2004-4e54dc
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
- One of 9 documented reports from Morongo Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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