UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Santa Clarita, CA, USA

We saw this bright orange light get bigger and bigger, then grew a tail. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch @ 17:26 hrs. (PST). PD))

Report quality: Low39/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 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
2017-12-22
Where
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
34.392, -118.543 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-santa-clarita-ca-2017-8b9596
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…

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In context

  • Santa Clarita, CA shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 594 reports came from California in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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