Oceanside, CA, USA
Standing on Main Side, Camp Pendleton, and looking W, my wife noticed a bright light. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- Oceanside, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 33.196, -117.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-oceanside-ca-2015-8d2b6f
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…
Local cluster
Oceanside, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of November 2015.
In context
- One of 53 documented reports from Oceanside, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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