UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Orange (also visable from Covina), CA, USA

Saw Strange line of light due east of location in Orange, CA shortly before sun crested over horizon. Ran into house to get camera and

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-14
Where
Orange (also visable from Covina), CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
about 5 minutes
Geo
33.788, -117.853 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-orange-also-visable-from-covina-ca-2004-930c7f
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Orange (also visable from Covina), CA.
  • This case is one of 568 California reports filed in 2004.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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