UFOMYST
CaseFireball2016

Laguna Beach, CA, USA

Comet-like UFO's with shimmery tales over the ocean turning on and off. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-15
Where
Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes total
Geo
33.542, -117.783 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-laguna-beach-ca-2016-20e4e8
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

  • Laguna Beach, CA has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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