CaseFireball2014

Orange County (in southern part), CA, USA

Fireball seen clearly in South Orange County LA area.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-13
Where
Orange County (in southern part), CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
33.677, -117.776 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-orange-county-in-southern-part-ca-2014-0e4c01
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 1 documented reports from Orange County (in southern part), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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