CaseFireball2015
La Jolla, CA, USA
Fast moving bright ball of light leaving behind a green fluorescent cloud. ((NUFORC Note: US Navy missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Moderate53/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-11-07
- Where
- La Jolla, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 32.847, -117.274 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-la-jolla-ca-2015-4afbb6
Wave
Part of a wave
CA flap 2015-11
CA, USA
19 sightings in geohash 9mud (CA) during 2015 peak months 11–11; top shape light
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 La Jolla, CA reports filed in November 2015.
Flap
CA flap 2015-11
This report belongs to the CA flap 2015-11 — 19 sightings concentrated together.
Explore this area →In context
- La Jolla, CA shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 814 reports came from California in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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