UFOMYST
CaseFireball2010

Lompoc, CA, USA

huge bright orange sphere appeared and dissapeared

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-01-10
Where
Lompoc, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
6 sec
Geo
34.639, -120.458 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lompoc-ca-2010-eeb4ba
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

  • This is one of 16 reports logged in Lompoc, CA.
  • This case is one of 605 California reports filed in 2010.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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