Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
At around 950pm (PDT) , my wife and I were walking our dogs around the block when we observed a shining light in the sky. Our fi
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 (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-25
- Where
- Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 90 sec
- Geo
- 33.885, -118.411 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-manhattan-beach-ca-2010-600a00
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
- Manhattan Beach, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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