Encinitas/Carlsbad, CA, USA
Big green fireball fell into ocean near Carlsbad/Oceanside, CA at 23:12, 01/04/2006
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-04
- Where
- Encinitas/Carlsbad, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~ 3 seconds
- Geo
- 33.037, -117.292 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-encinitas-carlsbad-ca-2006-b41e0a
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 2 reports logged in Encinitas/Carlsbad, 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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