Orange, CA, USA
Three orange-red fireballs, coming from horizon and following upward-right trajectory then fading away, one appearing after the other
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-22
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orange-ca-2014-eec464
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 43 documented reports from Orange, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.