CaseFireball2012
San Diego (on Mexican border), CA, Mexico
3 bright(star-like), orange fireballs with white swirly tails.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-17
- Where
- San Diego (on Mexican border), CA, Mexico
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 19.309, -98.375 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-on-mexican-border-ca-2012-e34aea
Wave
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 1 reports logged in San Diego (on Mexican border), Mexico.
- This case is one of 10 Mexico reports filed in 2012.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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