San Diego, CA, USA
Firework-like ship fell down, then up again, down about 3 circles before disappearing (7 witnesses). ((anonymous report))
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-07
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2017-49c338
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
4 reports came out of San Diego, CA in July 2017 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Diego, CA has 516 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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