CaseFireball1972
San Diego (Marine Base Camp Pendleton), CA, USA
In the 1970s I was a watch commander or Marine base military police Although I didn’t see it my officers reported a pulsating object mo
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-03-22
- Where
- San Diego (Marine Base Camp Pendleton), CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 hrs
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-marine-base-camp-pendleton-ca-1972-3d52c3
In context
- San Diego (Marine Base Camp Pendleton), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from California in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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