Menifee, CA, USA
3-4 objects shot across sky (west to east travel). Two red fireballs moving fast. Booms heard after 2nd fireball.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-15
- Where
- Menifee, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.728, -117.146 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-menifee-ca-2016-a8c398
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
- Menifee, CA has 29 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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