South Gate, CA, USA
We were walking and it was a bit over 10 pm when we saw an object hovering in the sky. Made no sound. It moved in about 60 degrees.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-05
- Where
- South Gate, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1
- Geo
- 33.955, -118.212 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-south-gate-ca-2015-037174
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
- This is one of 17 reports logged in South Gate, CA.
- This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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