UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

San Diego, CA, USA

I was facing south at approx. 8:15 PM sitting at a stop sign in my car, it was dark.I saw a streak of light and a contrail moving f

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-10-14
Where
San Diego, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 sec.
Geo
32.716, -117.165 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2006-600f17
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 San Diego, CA reports filed in October 2006.

In context

  • San Diego, CA shows up 516 times across the archive.
  • 561 reports came from California in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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