UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

El Monte, CA, USA

FIREBALL IN CLEAR SKY

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (21 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-19
Where
El Monte, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
ONE SECOND
Geo
34.069, -118.028 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-el-monte-ca-2006-c60f24
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 14 reports logged in El Monte, CA.
  • This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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