UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

South Pasadena, CA, USA

FIreball shaped object overhead, seen, then heard, then GONE without a trace. ((NUFORC Note: Possible a/c with contrail. PD))

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (77 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
2005-11-03
Where
South Pasadena, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
34.116, -118.150 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-south-pasadena-ca-2005-1ee19f
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

  • South Pasadena, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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