Ramona, CA, USA
((NUFORC Note: Vandenberg AFB missile launch. PD)) Point of light leaves an expanding glowing pear-shaped cloud of gasses.
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2005-09-22
- Where
- Ramona, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes ?
- Geo
- 33.042, -116.868 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ramona-ca-2005-e26410
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
- This is one of 19 reports logged in Ramona, CA.
- This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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