CaseFireball2020
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bright, orange/reddish light spotted moving over East LA
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-29
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-los-angeles-ca-2020-5a2265
Wave
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
- Los Angeles, CA has 521 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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