UFOMYST
CaseFireball2015

Goleta, CA, USA

Fireball shoots across early evening sky for a minute and half over L.A.. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. 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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 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
2015-12-22
Where
Goleta, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
34.436, -119.828 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-goleta-ca-2015-51adbf
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

  • One of 26 documented reports from Goleta, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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