Whittier, CA, USA
Orange, glowing fireball flying north; was fast as an airplane but not an airplane; after my bday party; no one else saw it?
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-26
- Where
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.979, -118.033 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-whittier-ca-2014-6647b3
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
- Whittier, CA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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