San Diego, CA, USA
A bright white fireball in the N about 1k high, fell to the NE it was about to hit houses and vanished, lasted15 secs.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-05
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10-15 Seconds
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-diego-ca-2009-80d44a
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…
Local cluster
San Diego, CA logged 6 reports in the single month of February 2009.
In context
- One of 516 documented reports from San Diego, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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