San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Large white object with trailing fire. ((NUFORC Note: Multiple witnesses. Possible bright meteor. PD))
Report quality: Low28/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-12-29
- Where
- San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 35.283, -120.660 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-luis-obispo-ca-2014-ea6fda
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
- San Luis Obispo, CA shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 869 reports came from California in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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