UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Salton Sea, CA, USA

Multiple fireballs, sonic booms and a craft.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-17
Where
Salton Sea, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
sporadic 5 seconds severa
Geo
33.314, -115.817 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-salton-sea-ca-2018-3b1091
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 6 reports logged in Salton Sea, CA.
  • This case is one of 331 California reports filed in 2018.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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