La Mesa, CA, USA
As I was going out to my car I grabbed what I needed shut the door and looked up at the sky and saw a huge Orange fireball but it didn'
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-09
- Where
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 32.768, -117.023 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-la-mesa-ca-2021-cac34a
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
- One of 38 documented reports from La Mesa, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 330 sightings in 2021.
- Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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