Lucerne Valley, CA, USA
IN THE SE SKY AT 6:00 AM THERE WAS A SORT OF MISSLE GOING STRIGHT UP THEN IT EXPOLDED AND A LARGE PUFF OF SMOKE AFTERWARD.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-10
- Where
- Lucerne Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.444, -116.968 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lucerne-valley-ca-2015-962fd0
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 6 documented reports from Lucerne Valley, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 814 sightings in 2015.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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